A review by bowierowie
Love Poems by Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton

3.0

I just could not get into this collection as much as "Live or Die" no matter how much I wanted to. Perhaps some of the poems are too ethereal for me? I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I found myself dozing off while reading some of them, while others jolted me out of my seat their use of language was so powerful and evocative. My favorites from this collection are: "The Touch", "The Breast", "That Day", "In Celebration of My Uterus", "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife", "The Break" (A bird full of bones, now I'm held by a sand bag. / The fracture was twice. The fracture was double. / The days are horizontal. The days are a drag. / All of the skeleton in me is in trouble.), "Just Once", "You All Know the Story of the Other Woman", "The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator", "Mr. Mine", "Song for a Lady", "Eighteen Days Without You: December 16th".