Book description
Sarah de Leeuw's Geographies of a Lover is a sexually charged travelogue of love, lust, and loss.Drawing inspiration from such works as Pauline Réage's The Story of O and Marian Engel's Bear, de Leeuw's poetry uses the varied landscape of Canada--from the forests of North Vancouver through the Rocky Mountains,…
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1 author picked Geographies of a Lover as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I liked this book because the titles of the poems are distinctive in that they represent specific latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates on the map.
Each of these sites gives an insight into the content of the various poems, reminding me to believe I was in love with different people.
From Harold's list on poems written by Canadians madly in love.
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