Sensuous poetry that will transport you in time. It will either make you reminisce those wonderful moments you have had or make you long for and want to feel what the characters feel in the book. It is smooth easy reading. It is adult poetry on the sensuous side that can be read alone or with a loved one on those evenings or nights you wish to steal way and wind down quietly and have a marvelous time.
Lyrical Afrodisiac is an intimate collection of poems and vignettes that will awaken the passion in any reader. Each piece takes the reader on an erotic journey through the uninhibited sexual expression of Amerikah The Beautiful. Her liberating lines arouse the senses with vivid imagery. Lyrical Afrodisiac ranges from playful poems like Thank You which expresses the humor in sexual satisfaction to poems like Assibey delving into love at first sight. Haikus will never be looked at the same, Lyrical Afrodisiac reunites nature and nudity with clever comparisons in each short poem. Amerikah The Beautiful captures the essence of love, lust, passion and playfulness in her lines as she removes the literary chastity belt from the minds of her readers.
This wildly sexy, veracious and highly arousing, steamy collection of new and selected poetry and spoken word, completely bares all and leaves nothing to the imagination. A raunchy, rude and racy, reckless and raw roller coaster ride of uninhibited lust, romance, intimacy, sex, passion and eroticism.
At a time when Old Testament and New Testament studies are considered to be two very different tasks, this major new work by Charles Scobie offers an approach to biblical theology meant to take in the entire sweep of divine revelation. Comprehensive in scope, this book covers every aspect of biblical theology. Chapters are devoted first to the nature and task of biblical theology and then to major themes within the biblical message -- God's order, God's servant, God's people, and God's way. Each section of the book also features an extensive system of helpful cross-references. Not only is Scobie's attempt to bridge the biblical testaments admirable, but he also takes great care to present scholarship that is at the same time informed by, and relevant to, the daily life and work of the church. The result is a book that is relevant to readers everywhere. Accessible to teachers, clergy, students, and general readers alike, this book will reinvigorate the study of the Bible as the unified word of God.
"And Never Know the Joy" : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few of the initial themes that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be found in this volume, with many an invitation "to seize the day". Reproduction, pregnancy, and fear; discredited and degraded libertines; the ventriloquism of sexual objects; the ease with which men are reduced to impotence by the carnality of women; orgasm and melancholy; erotic mysticism and religious sexuality; the potency and dangers of fruit and flowers; the delights of the recumbent male body and of dancing girls; the fertile ritual use of poetic texts; striptease and revolution; silent women reclaimed as active vessels, are amongst the many engaging topics that emerge out of the ongoing and entertaining scholarly discussion of sex and eroticism in English poetry.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
William Blake was ignored in his own time. Now, however, his Songs of Innocence and Experience and 'prophetic books' are widely admired and studied. The second edition of this successful introductory text: - Leads the reader into the Songs and 'prophetic books' via detailed analysis of individual poems and extracts, and now features additional insightful analyses - Provides useful sections on 'Methods of Analysis' and 'Suggested Work' to aid independent study - Offers expanded historical and cultural context, and an extended sample of critical views that includes discussion of the work of recent critics - Provides up-to-date suggestions for further reading William Blake: The Poems is ideal for students who are encountering the work of this major English poet for the first time. Nicholas Marsh encourages you to enjoy and explore the power and beauty of Blake's poems for yourself.
There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant sensuality. These poems range across the varied landscapes of love and sex and desire -- from the intimate parts of the body to the end of an affair, from passion to solitary self-pleasure. With candor and imagination, they capture the delights and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy. David Lehman, the distinguished editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, has culled a witty, titillating, and alluring collection that starts with Francis Scott Key, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane, encompasses Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Kevin Young, and Sharon Olds, and concludes with the rising stars of a whole new generation of versifiers, including Sarah Manguso, Ravi Shankar, and Brenda Shaughnessy. In a section of the book that is sure to prompt discussion and further reading, the living poets write about their favorite works of erotic writing. This book will delight, surprise, and inspire.
Written from a personal perspective, POEMS FOR SEX, SMOKE AND RAINSTORMS is a collection of passionate, sensual verses about intimacy and love. Never underestimate the power of a female poet. Kaya Häfeli’s poems are filled with sensory detail to bring the readers in as an intimate voyeur. A testimony to her love of words and evocative images, they will make you feel embodied in them. Kaya Häfeli is a brilliant poet whose tender, sensitive, yet powerful and profound verses will empower and inspire you, regardless of your gender identity or expression. Born in Hong Kong in 1995, Kaya Häfeli has spent most of her life travelling around the world: from South East Asia to Europe, Switzerland, to be precise, where she graduated high school from the ‘Freies Gymnasium Bern’ in 2015 with a focus on Psychology and Philosophy, then Scotland, the place she called home while completing her degree in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen. In 2020 she relocated to London for a Master’s degree in Crime and Forensic science at UCL. Currently, she is based in Kent working in environmental regulation. Kaya’s other passion is writing poetry inspired by personal experiences in love and life ranging from the spiritual to the mundane, the latter usually holding more magic.
