Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous and Highly Strung

By Michelle Lovric

Book Overview

Bleeding Hearts presents a selection of truly neurotic and tortured love poetry-poems for the mean times, for the broken hearts, for the trampled hopes and for the rare and fragile outbreaks of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312191685
• ISBN13: 9780312191689
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.7" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

surprise!

got in touch with my ex-girlfriend and she derisively threw this little gem at me: "trying to pass yourself off as an english poet, are you?" i replied "no!" because i wasn't, even though it looked like i was.you see, dear reader, she had done a search on google for my name a while back (she still cares!) and this poetry book anthology came up, with one of my very old poems under a very old title (the poem is actually called "layla's poem" now). i never thought i had ever gotten anything published. hell, i haven't even written poetry in years (after i figured out that nobody really gave a flying rats backside about my rants, entertaining as they were)!be that as it may, it's a good poem, in my stable of good to mediocre poems, so i give michelle lovric lots of credit for knowing how to pick em. at least she didn't put one of my stinkers in there. props michelle!just one more thing: the book apparently lists me as an english poet, but i'm not an english poet. i am a floridian poet who once lived in london and got kicked out for working as an illegal alien. in the grand scheme of things, there's not alot of difference, i suppose.now, i'm off to try and get a complimentary copy of this book (still can't afford to buy poetry) so i can impress my friends, chicks, and influence other people! yay dale carnegie! yay poetry!

beautiful, angry, and painful

This is an awesome collection of poetry. If you've had enough of cheesy, happy-ending love poems, this book is for you. Some of these poems are so raw they are painful. The poems in this book span the emotions of anger, jealousy, longing, bitterness, desire, and a little bit of love and forgiveness. Another thing I love about this book is that the poems are taken from a wide variety of poets of many different nationalities. I found many of the poems unique, new, and fresh to my eyes (and heart). If you've been searching for a way to express the raw feelings of a broken heart or intense longing, check out this book!

Beautiful Insanity

This book is perfect for captivating all the foolishness and heartache associated with falling in and out of love. With poetry and quotes by Noel Coward, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, and other well known writers, this book is a must have. Perfect Valentines gift for anyone between the ages of 18-35 who are dealing with a heartbreak or appreciate dark humor. ...

A necessary book for anyone who's ever been heartbroken.

This book is the ultimate collection of poems for those who have either been heartbroken or are bitter _because_ they've never had the chance.The poetry is all something to which many can relate, which adds to the whole experience of reading it since on almost every other page, you find something you at one point felt and didn't know how to express. Here, a little taste for everyone to adore and egg on to get a book that should be manatory for living, the editor includes a poem called "After Years of Listening, a Stone Comes To Life" by James Tipton, and in there, there is the best line I think I have ever heard in my entire life: "I will no longer apologize for loving you." That line right there is grounds to buy this book, and at the price it is offered on here, it makes me compelled to return my copy and buy it from here. :)

Wonderfully neurotic!

Finally a collection of love poems for those of us not gifted (or plagued) with perfect love lives. This book does not paint love in a bad light altogether. It is a realistic and humorous view of love from the pens of those not afflicted with soppily sweet and cloying views of love. Huzzah!