With echoes of Jacques Brault, Simone Weil, Baudelaire and Petrarch, in Of Love, Paul B langer continues his poetic quest for the sources of spiritual ecstasy. In this "body of song," the quest includes a series of distinct women as representatives of the Muse: an exciting black woman; a woman met in a poignant one-time encounter; a medley of women with "a variety of skins," who speak "the strangest of languages"; a lady for whom he lives...
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