# The Virago Book Of Love Poetry

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- Authors: [Wendy Mulford](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendy-mulford)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-6049-435-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1998-02-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For centuries women have written about love with passion, humour, frustration and despair; but never before have their voices come together as in this exhilarating and timeless compendium. Here are love poems in all their true, subversive drama, delicately arranged according to a balance of moods and modes: of argument and lyric, joke and passionate utterance, rejection, rage and ecstacy. Poets, well-known and obscure, ancient and modern - from Sappho to Akhamotova,Patti Smith to Selima Hill, Sylvia Plath to Alice Walker - all challenge the traditional perception of women as muse and object of desire, and magnificently transcend it.