Introduction -- Ecstasy: When love rocks: "I Want to Breathe" / James Laughlin -- "One hundred Love Sonnets: XVII" / Pablo Neruda -- "Sunday Night in the City / Sharon Olds -- "Variation on the World Sleep" / Margaret Atwood -- "I Carry Your Heart with Me" / E. E. Cummings -- "From Blossoms" / Li-Young Lee -- "Alicante" / Jacques Prevert -- "When Sue Wears Red" / Langston Hughes -- Elegie XIX: "To His Mistress Going to Bed" / John Donne -- "The Shipfitter's Wife / Dorianne Laux -- "I Want" / Kim Konopka -- Stability: When love rolls: "Camomile Tea" / Katherine Mansfield -- "Valentine" / Donald Hall -- Henry V V.II 146-68 / William Shakespeare -- Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare -- "To the Engraver of My Skin" / Mark Doty -- "A Love Poem" / Etheridge Knight -- "The Hunkering" / Donald Hall -- "An Early Afterlife" / Linda Pastan -- "It Is Marvellous..." / Elizabeth Bishop -- Monotony: When love lulls: "Apex Plumbing" /Elizabeth Ash Velez -- "The Zen of Housework" / Al Zolynas -- "Lucy" / Charlotte Matthews -- "Kids" / John A. Williams -- "Ceremony" / Louise Gluck -- "Garden Party" / Silvia Curbelo -- "Vers de Societe" / Philip Larkin -- "Appetizers" / Larry Velez -- Uncertainty: When love keeps you guessing: "In Former Days We'd Both Agree" / Bhartrhari -- "Talking in Bed" / Philip Larkin -- "Girls" / Pablo Neruda -- "Because my Mother and Father..." / Kate Bingham -- "Nantucket" / William Carlos Williams -- "Biscuit" / Jane Kenyon -- "Last Night You Left Me and Slept" / Rumi -- "I Wrung My Hands Under My Dark Veil" / Anna Akhmatova -- "Terminal" / Sam Holtzapple -- "Just a Sestina to You, Honey, Letting You Know What an Interesting Thing Happened to Me While You Were at Home Rubbing Your Wife's Back" / Carolyn Creedon -- "Surprise" / Dorothy Parker -- "On a Line by Petrarch" / Eleanor Stanford -- "Elegy for Love" / Mark McMorris -- Misery: When love stinks: "Relationship" / Janos Pilinszky -- "The Ivy Crown" / William Carlos Williams -- "The More You Ruv Someone" from Avenue Q / Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx -- "Marriage" / Marie Howe -- "Love Song" / Dorothy Parker -- "Ending" / Gavin Ewart -- "Telemachus' Detachment" / Louise Gluck -- "The Rival" / Sylvia Plath -- "Cardinal Points" / Elizabeth Ash Velez -- "Hazel Tells LaVerne" / Katharyn Howd Machan -- "Finding Is the First Act" / Emily Dickinson -- "Sex" / Kate Bingham -- "Knowledge" / Louise Bogan -- "Broken-Off Twig Budding Out in the Path" / Jane Hirshfield -- Clarity: When love shines: "Mary Bly" / James Wright -- Excerpt from "The Ivy Crown" / William Carlos Williams -- "Habitation" / Margaret Atwood -- "Animals" / Frank O'Hara -- "Earthly Love" / Louise Gluck -- "The Journey" / James Wright -- "Three Times My Life Has Opened" / Jane Hirshfield -- "Decade" / Amy Lowell -- "This is Just to Say" / William Carlos Williams -- "Life Is Motion" / Wallace Stevens -- Biographies of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- About the editors.
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