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Mary D. Esselman

Författare till The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart

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I suppose with such a title I should have expected what I received, a book geared toward twenty-somethings, or perhaps even teens. The book is divided into sections related to the stages of grief one goes through when a relationship ends: rage, sadness, relapse, real hope, and moving on. Each section has an overly-long introduction followed by a number of short poems, some by authors I recognized such as Robert Frost and e.e. cummings and others I suspect are of far less skill. Such a design could have worked better, with shorter, far less cutesy introductions and better poem choices. There are multiple such books by these authors. I don’t feel a need to read any of the others. I gave this three stars primarily because it contained some poems I genuinely enjoyed, but it was a quite nearly a two-star rating.… (mer)
 
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LeslieHurd | Jan 11, 2017 |
The third book of poetry that Ms. Esselman and Ms. Velez have put together, YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY can help anyone once again believe in the power and redeeming force of love. Whether newlyweds, heading towards your golden anniversary, or gripped in the claws of new love with a significant other, these poems are for you.

From Shakespeare to Neruda, from e.e. Cummings to a poet named Rumi, YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY tackles every aspect of love and lays it bare. A testament to true love in VALENTINE segues into the daily lives of a couple caught in a lull in APEX PLUMBING. You can be thrown into that frenzied feeling of new love and sexuality in I WANT, then tossed back into the sea of heartache with FINDING IS THE FIRST ACT.

I am the first to admit that I don't know all the ins and outs of poetry. I don't know the structure with which true poems are put together; I haven't a clue as to what makes a poem a poem. What I do know, however, is that love is glorious thing. It's also the most painful emotion that a human being can suffer. In this book, you can live through the range of emotions that we all experience every day-longing, need, understanding, misery, and hope.

YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY is for the woman who knows that Hallmark cards aren't for real people. There are no cards to say "Gee, I'm sorry your kid got kicked off the basketball team," or "Oops, guess that comment I made about husbands who pick their noses in public wasn't so funny after all." This book is for me, for you, for everyone who knows that the good always comes with the bad, that baggage is generously included with your lover, and that being imperfect isn't, after all, necessarily the end of the world.
… (mer)
 
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GeniusJen | 3 andra recensioner | Oct 14, 2009 |
Some of these poems are SO worth reading. As with any poetry, you have to see which speak to you, but overall a very enjoyable little book.
 
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bookwormteri | 3 andra recensioner | Apr 28, 2008 |
This is an anthology featuring poems about different stages relationships go through - ecstasy, stability, monotony, uncertainty, misery, clarity. I love those sorts of books as a way to read poetry.

When you read a book of poetry by a single author you’re reading what one person has to say about many subjects. In anthologies you’re reading what many people have to say about one (or a few) subjects. I find that appealing (and it’s also a good way to find poets you want to read more of!) and I thought this volume, although small, was quite good. It includes both long-ago and modern poets, and the poems themselves were romantic, sentimental, sexy, funny, snarky, bitter, contented - a little something for ‘most anyone or any mood.… (mer)
 
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DebR | 3 andra recensioner | Jul 14, 2007 |

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