Ann Filemyr

Love Enough Ann Filemyr

Poetry. Women's Studies. The poems in LOVE ENOUGH explore the myriad possibilities for love in our utterly human lives. The characters in these poems, driven by desire to belong to each other and the land, experience the unexpected. They want, we want, to love and be loved. The title poem celebrates an intimate history. Interweaving race and gender, it is an American love story of both social and personal revelation.

These poems take the reader for a whirlwind of a ride through language brilliantly used and finely crafted. They invite us to better understand the transforming power of love even as we experience its 'tumult between danger and safety, ' and they reflect the rollercoaster ride that we all know love to be. Filemyr's poems explore the emotions of love with a profoundly human compassion and great respect for love's sacred core. The deeply moving last poem 'Love Enough' is without question, the most amazing and important love poem I have ever read. Every word rings with its own truth, its own wisdom. This book is a 'must read!'--Michael S. Glaser