Acts of Love

By Edgar Gabriel Silex

In his third book of poetry, Edgar Gabriel Silex explores the ways love confronts us. Devastatingly honest, these poems begin with "children transported in confusions of love" and examine relationships within the family and with lovers, and "how our love, for our most precious things, is soiled with our shameful behaviors, by our acceptance of doubt and melancholia."

The general movement of the poems is affirmative, traveling from pain of childhood trauma through understanding to the point where the narrator is able to break the cycle of violence and conclude "we will remember / everything in beauty."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931896062
• ISBN13: 9781931896061
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Curbstone Press
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

The darker side of love

I was first introduced to Silex while I was in college - I immediately was capivated by his use of language. "Acts of Love" is an excellent collection of poems that detail the darker parts of love and life - yet still manages to keep the hope and joy of love alive. It is surely an excellent read and worth pcking up time and time again.

Perfectly showcases his impressive gift with language

Acts Of Love is author and poet Edgar Gabriel Silex's most recent compilation and perfectly showcases his impressive gift with language in an almost "stream of consciousness" verse that can unflinching reveal the problematic side of human relationships and the obtainable necessity of emotional healing and the salvational hope of enduring love. Girl on the Threshold: she is sitting on the threshold/outside the blue doors to her house/wearing Love's red dress/bright and vibrating heart-red/against a big blue sky of doors/the bombs have been falling all night/shots can be heard everywhere/how long has she been waiting there/for her father the civil officers/who went out to defend their home/her gaze is fixed down the street/toward the way he always returns/how long will she be waiting there/pensively sucking on her thumb