Love Poems

by Charles Bane Jr.

" Bane's poems made me want to believe in love. To believe not only in the sublime, rhapsodic state, but in romantic expression. The urgency of his words and the freshness and surprise of his language provide an eloquent assertion that Romantic poetry and love poetry are not a historical past" - Ariana Nash, winner of the 2011 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for her collection, Instructions For Preparing Your Skin "I like the flavor of your poem 'Forever Now' (opening poem in this volume). My good wishes for more..." -Richard Wilbur, Past U.S. Poet Laureate, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize "It is too rare to find good poems of love in our day. Charles Bane's honest,strong poems of love across decades work to repair that." -Roald Hoffmann, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and poet "Charles Bane, Jr. understands that love 'immortalizes' like air and in Love Poems, his new collection, that's exactly what he does. These poems move effortlessly between the natural world and Bane's nearly mystical appreciation for love's transcendent power" -Anthony Frame, Founding Editor of Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and author of A Generation of Insomniacs And Praise For Charles Bane Jr.'s earlier collection: "Bane's work not only stands on the shoulders of giants, it shrinks them" -The Huffington Post

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061593496X
• ISBN13: 9780615934969
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"