Name: What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems
ISBN: 9780393348392

Kim Addonizio

Poetry from the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post.

What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

Poetry from the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. From lilting lines about a love that "dizzies up the brain's back room" to haunting fragments betokening death and decline in a suffering world, Kim Addonizio articulates the ways that our connections—to the world, to self, and to others—endure and help make us whole.

“Already I’m forgetting what felt / like a great love, forgetting that world / which for the short while I lived there / had me fooled into believing / it was the only world; [...]”

What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

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