Molly Peacock

Original Love

Poems

"Accomplished and witty, this anatomy of 'original' love is not for the fainthearted; it's for those who believe it is still possible to feel deeply." -Library Journal

Fiercely intimate in its honesty and fiercely formal in its measures, Molly Peacock's fourth collection shows the poet at the height of her powers.

Using her trademark rhymes, characteristic humor, and daring sexual and psychological openness, Peacock intertwines at least four types of original love in her poems: a narrative of meeting again and marrying in midlife; the tangled knot of mother/daughter love; a quest for the spiritual; and finally a vibrant love of the self, triumphantly recovered after childhood abuse.

Molly Peacock, president emeritus of the Poetry Society of America, lives in London, Ontario, and New York City.