Intimate Kisses The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure

by Maltz, Wendy; Moore, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781577311331
• ISBN10: 1577311337
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-18
• Publisher: New World Library

Summary

Therapist and marriage counselor Wendy Maltz turns up the heat while celebrating healthy sexuality in this collection of poems that dispel the negative cultural message that what feels good must be bad. Maltz’s anthologies are designed to inspire couples toward a deeper physical intimacy and to show that the sexual impulse can be aroused by conveying personal experience through great writing.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
thomas moore
Introduction	xvii
PART 1 anticipation & desire	1	(38)
The Real Hearth	3	(2)
marge piercy
Wild Nights---Wild Nights!	5	(1)
emily dickinson
Lineaments of Desire	6	(3)
patti tana
``The Moth's Kiss, First!...''	9	(1)
robert browning
The Dance	10	(1)
robin jacobson
Little Acts of Love	11	(1)
marge piercy
Thirst	12	(1)
linda alexander
Fires	13	(2)
floyd skloot
Black Water	15	(2)
george keithley
What Makes It Good	17	(1)
david meuel
Shaving Night Sonnet	18	(1)
debra pennington davis
Come With me to Our Sweet Bed	19	(1)
penny harter
That Day	20	(2)
nikki giovanni
``Spring paints the Countryside...''	22	(1)
jelaluddin rumi
Skinsong	23	(1)
trudi paraha
Peeling an Orange	24	(2)
virginia hamilton adair
I Want to Sing	26	(1)
nikki giovanni
I Woke Up	27	(2)
patti tana
Breakfast in Bed	29	(2)
michael s. smith
A Simple Pleasure	31	(1)
joseph h. ball
The Night the Children Were Away	32	(2)
stephen dunn
Begin in the Night	34	(2)
abigail albrecht
I Want to Love You With Every Piece of This Body	36	(1)
james tipton
Aubade	37	(2)
robert wrigley
PART 2 self-awareness & discovery	39	(28)
The Kiss	41	(2)
anne sexton
Entry October 26	43	(1)
walter benton
Bacchanalia	44	(1)
j. b. bernstein
I Cannot Forget the Woman in the Mirror	45	(1)
sharon olds
``I Love Being Lost...''	46	(1)
karen garrison
Laughing Thoroughbreds	47	(1)
patti tana
The Gateway	48	(1)
a.d. hope
Awakening	49	(2)
gayle eleanor
Touch	51	(1)
octavio paz
Full Summer	52	(2)
sharon olds
Coming Together	54	(2)
jeff walt
The Water Cycle	56	(1)
alison stone
Touches	57	(2)
floyd skloot
In the Kitchen	59	(1)
alexander taylor
Making Love	60	(3)
walt farran
After New Hampshire	63	(2)
rosemary klein
On Entering the Sea	65	(1)
nizar qabbani
``Spring Overall. But Inside Us...''	66	(1)
jelaluddin rumi
PART 3 admiration & appreciation	67	(42)
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	69	(1)
ewan mac coll
The Tenth Kiss	70	(2)
joannes secundus
Bones	72	(1)
roger pfingston
The Ninth Secret Poem	73	(1)
guillaume apollinaire
The Shape of Brightness	74	(1)
laura k. gourlay
The Smallest Blue Veins	75	(1)
neil carpathios
Lighting at Rest	76	(1)
octavio paz
The Outpouring	77	(2)
david meuel
Bio Logos	79	(1)
molly peacock
On a Night of the Full Moon	80	(2)
audre lorde
Nesting	82	(2)
abigail albrecht
Whaia I Te Po	84	(1)
trudi paraha
Your Tongue	85	(2)
edward kleinschmidt mayes
Descending	87	(1)
david meuel
Heat in the Body	88	(1)
david watts
Tell Me	89	(2)
carolyn flynn
``I Give You My Tongue...''	91	(2)
patrick mulrooney
Kiss	93	(1)
corey mesler
Entry June 12	94	(2)
walter benton
The Butterfly	96	(1)
nikki giovanni
It	97	(1)
leatha kendrick
Afterword	98	(2)
ginger murchison
2 Am	100	(2)
dorianne laux
Alicante	102	(1)
jacques prevert
Good	103	(1)
bruce taylor
In Your Hands	104	(1)
jane hirshfield
Ten Years Together	105	(2)
david meuel
Just Before Seventy	107	(1)
rusty fischer
I Love It When	108	(1)
sharon olds
PART 4 union & ecstasy	109	(44)
The Enjoyment	111	(1)
anon
Creation	112	(2)
dara prisamt murray
Public Affection	114	(2)
emani
``I Flung Closer to His Breast...''	116	(1)
elizabeth barrett browning
Love Poem	117	(1)
sarah brown weitzman
In the Absence of Ocean	118	(2)
alison townsend
At the Kitchen Counter	120	(2)
jay farbstein
Wet	122	(2)
marge piercy
Oh Yeah	124	(2)
charles rossiter
Spilling	126	(1)
trudi paraha
Occasion	127	(2)
roger pfingston
Horizons	129	(2)
barbara la morticella
Axis	131	(2)
octavio paz
Gravity	133	(2)
rick fournier
All Year Long	135	(2)
anonymous
Cornfield	137	(1)
gail morse
All That Wet	138	(1)
diane quintrall lewis
``O It's Nice to Get Up in, the Slipshod Mucous Kiss...''	139	(1)
e.e. cummings
And Sunday Morning	140	(1)
christian mcewen
Armfuls of Summer	141	(2)
kathleen iddings
Apricots and Figs	143	(1)
edward kleinschmidt mayes
This Night Only	144	(1)
kenneth rexroth
Swans' Song	145	(2)
elizabeth m. dalton
Cloudburst	147	(1)
ed l. wier
Night of Blue Stars	148	(1)
abigail albrecht
The Night	149	(4)
galway kinnell
PART 5 afterglow & remembrance	153	(40)
Sometimes, After Making Love	155	(2)
ellen bass
Where I Go After Sex	157	(2)
john grey
Afterwards	159	(2)
dorianne laux
A Good Afternoon	161	(1)
roger pfingston
Sun and Moon	162	(2)
gina zeitlin
Love & Desire	164	(2)
elizabeth claman
Fire	166	(1)
lucille lang day
Finishing Touches	167	(1)
david meuel
Night Poem	168	(1)
penny harter
Time to Embrace	169	(2)
michael foster
``Her Eyes in Sleep...''	171	(1)
anonymous
Listener	172	(2)
joseph millar
Myth	174	(2)
jonathan blake
Seamless Beauty	176	(2)
wendy lee
Aubade	178	(1)
anon
Morning	179	(1)
maureen tolman flannery
Redbud	180	(2)
wally swistz
The Ordinary Day Begins	182	(1)
june sylvester saraceno
Lastnight, After We Made Love	183	(2)
danusha lameris de garza
In Victoria's Secret, Near the Bras	185	(2)
neil carpathios
Maidenhair and Wild Roses	187	(2)
wally swist
A Moment	189	(1)
abraham linik
Last Night	190	(3)
sharon olds
Acknowledgments	193	(3)
Permissions Acknowledgments	196	(7)
About the Editor	203