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In many, the title of this volume is redundant. After all, kissing is poetry. The kiss is perhaps the most loving and intimate moment there is. It is among our most soothing and treasured memories, and perhaps most erotic.
The Poetry of Kissing is not about the kiss of a mother to her child's scraped knee, or the father to his baby's head as he settles down to sleep. When the poets here talk of the kiss, they describe the longing and desire, the want and hunger to be part of something that connects them to another, and transcends all manner of reason and decorum. That first kiss can be something so anticipated that it is almost electric; a thousand volt charge of tension and pleasure. It is also addictive. Who has not wanted to continue kissing? Who has not kissed a lover in a way that shrugs off convention in the taming of desire? Who has not kissed, or been kissed by surprise, in wonderment, or even on a street corner in the pouring rain? The kiss takes us to places where our dreams want to go.
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About the Authors
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.
John Keats (1795–1821) was an English romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death. During his life, his poems were not generally well received by critics; however, after his death, his reputation grew to the extent that by the end of the nineteenth century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He has had a significant influence on a diverse range of later poets and writers. His poetry is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popularly read and analyzed.
Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art, including recordings of the Nightwalkers series from Jaquelyn Frank. She has received several honors, including AudioFile Earphones Awards and a coveted Audie Award, and she was named Favorite Debut Romance Narrator of 2011 in the Romance Audiobooks poll.
About Ghizela Rowe
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.