Review of Love: A Book of Poetry, collected by Armand Eisen

I’m not sure how this book became part of my library. I think maybe I bought it as a Valentine’s Day gift for Greg, or maybe vice versa. It’s small. Literally. 3 inches by 3 ¾ inches, with a ¼-inch binding. 80 pages. It’s illustrated with details from Gustav Klimt’s paintings. 26 poets are represented between its covers.

Some of the poems are classics that you’d expect: Shall I compare thee with a summer’s day? She walks in beauty like the night. . . Others I’ve never read before. Some are delightful; some are embarrassingly sensuous; some are dogs. I wouldn’t say go buy this book, but I reread it thinking maybe this was one I could give away. I actually want to keep it a while longer and reread it a couple more times.