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A review by _mery98_
The Mirror of Love by Alan Moore
4.0
4/5
This truly is a beautiful book. The Mirror of Love is a combination of poetry and images about homosexual love and persecution. This text was originally written in 1988 in the UK as a reaction against Margaret Thatcher's government's legislation against gay rights, and it has used in a performance of monologue and images. Moore's words tell the story of homosexuality in compressed form and although the work was politically inspired, it is far from didactic.
Back matter includes references from the Bible and Sappho, through Gertrude Stein and Peter Tchaikovsky, to Margaret Thatcher. It also includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and others. It is a brief, poetic history of love, inclusive of same-sex love. Moore is best known as a comic author, but this is a warmer and more evocative Moore than I've seen elsewhere. He's gentler, without shying from hard realities, and leaves one reading much more than is actually printed on the page.
A wonderful denunciation of the abysmal baseness of bigotry and of the beauty of LOVE.
This truly is a beautiful book. The Mirror of Love is a combination of poetry and images about homosexual love and persecution. This text was originally written in 1988 in the UK as a reaction against Margaret Thatcher's government's legislation against gay rights, and it has used in a performance of monologue and images. Moore's words tell the story of homosexuality in compressed form and although the work was politically inspired, it is far from didactic.
Back matter includes references from the Bible and Sappho, through Gertrude Stein and Peter Tchaikovsky, to Margaret Thatcher. It also includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and others. It is a brief, poetic history of love, inclusive of same-sex love. Moore is best known as a comic author, but this is a warmer and more evocative Moore than I've seen elsewhere. He's gentler, without shying from hard realities, and leaves one reading much more than is actually printed on the page.
A wonderful denunciation of the abysmal baseness of bigotry and of the beauty of LOVE.