The Second Blush

by Molly Peacock

Book Overview

Demonstrating once again her "luxuriantly sensual imagination" (Washington Post), Molly Peacock celebrates marriage and a two-track life with the man who became her husband. As teenage sweethearts separated by other obligations, they found each other again at midlife. The piquant, sonnet-based poems take as their starting point her husband's survival from a life-threatening disease, addressing the contradictory ideas of planning for the future along...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066517
• ISBN13: 9780393066517
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

SENSUOUS AND MATURE

This is an amazingly mature and sensuous collection of poems that show the passions beneath the surface of a marriage; Molly Peacock always finds a way to love a little more. Read these poems and change your life.