Intimate Kisses revels in what may be life’s greatest mystery, through some of richest, most celebrated poetry ever written. Drawing on the success of her first anthology, Passionate Hearts: The Poetry of Sexual Love (New World Library, 1997), sex therapist and marriage counselor Wendy Maltz continues her celebration of healthy sexuality and, in the process, turns up the heat with Intimate Kisses.
In addition to dozens of lesser-known and unpublished poets, Intimate Kisses includes works by such notable poets as:
•Marge Piercy • Anne Sexton • Dorianne Laux
•Kenneth Rexroth • Sharon Olds • Jane Hirshfield
•Jelaluddin Rumi • Octavio Paz • Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
•Nikki Giovanni • Molly Peacock • Galway Kinnell
Intimate Kisses breaks through negative cultural messages that what feels good must be bad, or that only second-rate erotica can excite. Maltz’s anthologies are designed to inspire couples toward healthy sexuality and intimacy, showing that the sexual impulse can be aroused by conveying personal experience through great writing. In Intimate Kisses, women and men share their sexy, imaginative ideas of intimacy and arousal, demonstrating Michael Grosso’s words: “Nothing is sexier than the naked mind—nothing more seductive than the inventive imagination.”
About the Author A leading sex therapist and marriage counselor, Wendy Maltz is the author of The Sexual Healing Journey (HarperCollins, 1991), which has sold more than 75,000 copies, and which is being rereleased in a revised tenth anniversary edition in 2001. Her work has been featured in Parade, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, U.S. News & World Report, and Ladies Home Journal. She is the co-author of Private Thoughts: Exploring the Power of Women’s Sexual Fantasies (New World Library, 2001) and the editor of Passionate Hearts: The Poetry of Sexual Love. Maltz is co-director of Maltz Counseling Associates and lives with her husband and two children in Oregon.
INTIMATE KISSES: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure Edited by Wendy Maltz
Publication Date: January 2004
ISBN: 1-57731-445-X
Price: $14.00, 5” x 7.25 ”
Pages: 224, Paperback
Published by New World Library
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