I Cry Love! Love! Love! by Randel McCraw Helms

Author: Randel McCraw Helms. Review by Joanna Dales

'Helms makes complex ideas accessible, in everyday language, accommodated in rhyming lines and jaunty rhythms.' | Photo: Book cover of I Cry Love! Love! Love! by Randel McCraw Helms

Drawing its title from William Blake’s hymn of praise to sexual love (Visions of the Daughters of Albion), this little book inscribes the word ‘love’ in twenty-two of its thirty-three poems. They celebrate the delights of being in the body, and every kind of sexual and sensual pleasure. The mood is rather that of Lady Chatterley, where the bliss of mutual gratification is all the heaven we need.

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