All of the poems in
Promiscuous Love contain an
intimate love of
experience With deep
emotion and a fine intellect, author Ann
LeZotte fully
reveals herself in poems about numerous lesbian lovers; friendship and family bonds; life in New England, Greece, and Florida; the experience of being completely deaf; and her struggle with language and meaning. As a lyric poet—taking poets from Sappho to Gary Snyder as her greatest models—LeZotte measures syllabic count, and tries to stretch the boundaries of what lyric verse can be and mean. Written spontaneously over a fourteen-year period, the collection of poetry in
Promiscuous Love displays a young artist’s coming-of-age. “I don’t know how you can write so well without being able to hear. I have always thought that the spoken was the essence of poetry, but you have found ways of writing equally well for the voice and the eye.”—
Thom Gunn (1929–2004), award-winning poet and MacArthur Fellow.
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