Love Poems

A sampling of the many love poems on Voca.

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"Alcaics for a Wedding"
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Hacker, Marilyn. A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015.

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"Vows (for a gay wedding)"
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Legaspi, Joseph O. Threshold. CavanKerry Press, 2017.

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"What I Didn't Know Before"
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Limón, Ada. The Carrying. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2018.

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"After Love"
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Kumin, Maxine. The Nightmare Factory. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

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"Lay Me Down, Sweet Love"
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Published version carries the title "I'm With You, You're With Me." This reading differs from the published version.

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Tohe, Laura and Stephen E. Strom. Tséyi'/Deep in the Rock: Reflections on Canyon de Chelly. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2005.

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"For Fran"
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Levine, Philip. On the Edge. Iowa City: The Second Press, 1964.

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"Naming the Heartbeats"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. Oceanic. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2018.

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"The Myth of Blackbirds"
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Differs from published version.

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Harjo, Joy. The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.

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"These Hands, If Not Gods"
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Diaz, Natalie. Postcolonial Love Poem. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2020. 

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"I Loved You Before I Was Born"
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Lee, Li-Young. The Undressing. W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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"A Wedding Toast"
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Wilbur, Richard. The Mind Reader. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1976.

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"Never alone, with you..."
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Neruda, Pablo. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems. Trans. Forrest Gander. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016. 

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Laura Tohe
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Christine Krikliwy
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Philip Levine
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Ada Limón
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Becka Ranta
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Maxine Kumin
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Joseph O. Legaspi
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Patri Hadad
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Forrest Gander
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Hannah Ensor
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Marilyn Hacker
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Hannah Ensor
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Hannah Ensor
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Natalie Diaz
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Cybele Knowles
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Li-Young Lee
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Patri Hadad
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