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A Marriage Book

✍ Scribed by James P Lenfestey

Book ID
100596952
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
66 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction
City
Minneapolis, Minnesota
ISBN
157131492X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

From James P. Lenfestey, a collection of poems that lends delicacy and gentle humor to durable, long-lasting love.
Writing love poems fifty years into a marriage is no easy task: "If he exaggerates his love, she'll know . . . And if his desire for her is undiminished, / who would believe?" But in A Marriage Book, Lenfestey meets his own challenge with aplomb. These poems drop readers into the rich, textured world of one couple's enduring intimacy, from the warmth of a bedroom occupied by two to squabbles over miscommunications and crumbs in the kitchen.
As the marriage (and the Book) transition into parenthood, Lenfestey illuminates the equally stalwart wonder of observing one's children as they age and develop. Paternal love persists, and is even fed by, watching his children argue, suffer their own mistakes, and roar horrible breath at breakfast. So much poetry is about storms, / bruised fruit, locusts eating everything," he writes. "This poem is about a...

✦ Subjects

Marriage -- Poetry

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