Bisou

By susan serafin jess

"We think kissing probably evolved 21.5 million years ago in the large great apes," says evolutionary biologist Matilda Brindle. This collection presents multiple aspects of (mostly) human kissing in the poet's lifetime, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Some kisses are loving, some are lustful, some are laughable, and some are lethal; not all are literal. Lesbian vampire love bites on the big screen at the drive-in, infectious teenage kisses resulting in hospitalization, a chef's kiss, a passionate clinch in a Hitchcock movie, a coldhearted kiss-off, a mother kissing the soles of her newborn daughter's feet, and more: the reader will find the word kiss in every poem.

The book's title poem Bisou (French for kiss) recalls a scene from the television series Mad Men, when a younger wife's sexy performance of the French pop song Zou bisou bisou bisou at a birthday party in his honor mortifies her private and secretive husband.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GN98F3FM
• ISBN13: 9798246697818
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"