Love, Etc.: Poems of Love, Laughter, Longing & Loss - Paperback

by L. L. Barkat (Author)

"Poet L.L. Barkat is blessed with a talent for metaphor, an eye for the spare image that can shimmer like a polished gem, and a sensuous and lyrical voice - gifts she uses beautifully, even profoundly, in Love, Etc."

-Maureen Doallas, author of Neruda's Memoirs: Poems

Here's a blush rose,
with raspberry scent.

Here's a pink,
come taste the edge.

And here, my dear,
upon the stair,
is simply the hip
of a white-blue rose
I've carried up
to bed.

Featured on the BBC!

From the "Etc." section of the collection, "Vermillion" was featured on the BBC, alongside Ray Bradbury, Sylvia Plath, Vivaldi, Sting, William Carlos Williams, and more.

(See https: //www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zddw?fbclid=IwAR1qIazh_S2Cj5WsGkmCW6LjyZlXhs9Hqx-BoRE9EmYHK9ddCIgNEaN9EL4 )

Author Biography

L.L. Barkat is the author of six books, including an experimental fiction and poetry title, The Novelist: A Novella, and Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing (twice named a Best Book of 2011). Her poems have appeared at Best American Poetry, VQR, NPR, and Every Day Poems. Staff Writer for The Curator and Managing Editor of Tweetspeak Poetry, Barkat can be found at llbarkat.com.