Reviews for The handbook of heartbreak

The average rating for The handbook of heartbreak based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-06-15 00:00:00 Joseph Jacko There are some really nice poems in here. I really enjoyed "Body" and "In Houston." Quick read if you just read straight through, but I recommend taking time to read a couple poems a day.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-06 00:00:00 Dave Robinson 3.5 Someone in my circle discussed the need for break up poems anthology, and this was listed. But this collection explores various forms of heartbreak. Western Wind by Anonymous Western wind, when wilt thou blow? The small rain down can rain. Christ, that my love were in my arms, And I in my bed again My Grandmother's Love Letters by Hart Crane There are no stars tonight But those of memory. Yet how much room for memory there is In the loose girdle of soft rain. There is even room enough For the letters of my mother's mother, Elizabeth, That have been pressed so long Into a corner of the roof That they are brown and soft, And liable to melt as snow. Over the greatness of such space Steps must be gentle. It is all hung by an invisible white hair. It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air. And I ask myself: "Are your fingers long enough to play Old keys that are but echoes: Is the silence strong enough To carry back the music to its source And back to you again As though to her?" Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand Through much of what she would not understand; And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roof With such a sound of gently pitying laughter. Teachers by W.S. Merwin Pain is in this dark room like many speakers of a costly set though mute as here the needle and the turning the night lengthens it is winter a new year what I live for I can seldom believe in who I love I cannot go to what I hope is always divided but I say to myself you are not a child now if the night is long remember your unimportance sleep then toward morning I dream of the first words of books of voyages sure tellings that did not start by justifying yet at one time it seems had taught me b o d y James Merill Look closely at the letters. Can you see, entering (stage right), then floating full, then heading off'so soon' how like a little kohl-rimmed moon o plots her course from b to d 'as y, unanswered, knocks at the stage door? Looked at too long, words fail, phase out. Ask, now that body shines no longer, by what light you learn these lines and what the b and d stood for. Other absolute marvels from the book were ' 1. Definition of Love Andrew Marvell 2. Mock Orange by Louis Glück 3. Dream Song 14 by John Berryman 4. What He Thought by Heather McHugh, from Hinge & Sign : Poems