Love and Hate for Anna Karenina

By: Swofford, John

Love and Hate for Anna Karenina is a modern collection of poetic meditations that explores longing, identity, and the tension between private love and public life. Through a series of lyrical, intimate verses, the speaker wrestles with devotion that transcends time, politics, and circumstance. Each poem is a dialogue with an absent beloved-sometimes muse, sometimes mirror-whose presence shapes the poet's reflections on faith, destiny, and the contradictions of desire.
Blending spiritual imagery, political awareness, and deeply personal confession, the work situates romantic attachment within a wider struggle for meaning in an age of disconnection. The "Anna Karenina" of the title becomes less a character than a symbol: of beauty and suffering, of the conflict between personal longing and social expectation. At turns vulnerable and defiant, the speaker seeks both redemption and recognition, reaching across the boundaries of self and history.
This is not merely a love story but a search for resonance-between voices, between generations, between the personal and the collective. Love and Hate for Anna Karenina takes readers into a world where intimacy and imagination collide, leaving them to question where love ends and art begins.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FTVSWCX3
• ISBN13: 9798268309928
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"