Promiscuous Love

All of the poems in "Promiscuous Love" contain an intimate love of experience. With deep emotion and a fine intellect, author Ann LeZotte fully reveals herself in poems about numerous lesbian lovers; friendship and family bonds; life in New England, Greece, and Florida; the experience of being completely deaf; and her struggle with language and meaning. As a lyric poet-taking poets from Sappho to Gary Snyder as her greatest models-LeZotte measures syllabic count, and tries to stretch the boundaries of what lyric verse can be and mean. Written spontaneously over a fourteen-year period, the collection of poetry in "Promiscuous Love" displays a young artist's coming-of-age. 'I don't know how you can write so well without being able to hear. I have always thought that the spoken was the essence of poetry, but you have found ways of writing equally well for the voice and the eye."-Thom Gunn (1929-2004), award-winning poet and MacArthur Fellow