Making Love: Picador Book of Erotic Verse

by Alan Bold (Editor)

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Pretending to equally represent 'the elegantly erotic and the basically bawdy' , 'Making Love', funnily enough, fails to achieve such balance. Yet, it's precisely in its failure that it ends up being a well crafted display of lovely suggestive poems, largely ignoring the salacious. Ordered chronologically, it also is a very fluid read with a great introduction. Recommended!

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