The Poetry of Sex by Hannah, Sophie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Introduction The Poetry of Sex

1: ‘So ask the body’

Saturday Morning The Plague The Elephant is Slow to Mate On the Happy Corydon and Phyllis No Platonic Love I Who Am Leda and the Swan ‘I, being born a woman and distressed’ And I Sing the Body Electric

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Figs Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Eve to the Serpent A Woman Waits for Me My Black Triangle

2: ‘ALSO THOSE DESIRES GLOWING OPENLY’

‘If you were coming in the fall’ ‘First, I want to make you come in my hand’ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae I Feel He Asked About the Quality Guacamole Daniel Craig: The Screensaver Hypothetical Found Wanting Young Men Dancing Sandcastles Remember, Body … Love & Sex & Boys in Showers Service O Little One Troilism Assurance Losing It to David Cassidy A Man Greets His Wife from Her Short Break Away Wanting to Think

3: ‘A NIGHT PICKED FROM A HUNDRED AND ONE’

Imperial Viginty Alley Outside Amores 1.5 The Wasp Station And Looking Back Explode The Man in the Print Room La Noche Oscura

Dark Night

i like my body Ur Thurs Reidh Ansur Punctuation On being in Bed with Your Brand-new Lover The Platonic Blow (A Day for a Lay) Rhetorical Questions Haikus to Fuck to The Sun Rising Flicker

4: ‘ALL OUR STATES UNITED’

Tying the Knots Bicycle Pump Magnets Muse The Day He Met His Wife Conception After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Their Sex Life Featherlite Casanever The Couple Upstairs Putting in the Seed And So Today Take Off My Wristwatch An Epic in Me Ménage à Trois Intimacy Embrace Topography Like the Blowing of Birds’ Eggs

5: ‘BUT YOUR WIFE SAID SHE’

The Faithful The Sting In the Victoria Hotel ‘For each ecstatic instant’ ‘Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short’ The Marriage of Consonant and Vowel

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In Defence of Adultery Office Friendships Her News Story of a Hotel Room may i feel Adultery The Dark Night of the Sole ‘The expense of spirit in a waste of shame’ Cyber Infidelity To His Lost Lover Ending Rubbish at Adultery End of the Affair

6: ‘WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?’

Badly Chosen Lover Fetish From Strugnell’s Sonnets Message Benny Hill Anal Obsessive Katya is Bored Chris of Dublin Jaffa Cakes Buggery Carmen 16 To His Coy Mistress The Flea Hombres Necios

Stupid Men

Ego Annus Mirabilis

7: ‘OH RIGHT. YOU PEOPLE DON’T REMOVE THAT BIT’

Bloody Hell, It’s Barbara! Sex without Love Out of Office Poem while Reading Miroslav Holub in the Genito-urinary Clinic Waiting Room King Solomon and King David The Walk of Shame Municipal Ambition Madmen Can Clio Do More than Amuse? The Final Coming

8: ‘GOD, TO BE WANTED ONCE MORE’

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time One Flesh To Her Ancient Lover Address ‘What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why’ On the French Riviera Mick Jagger’s Penis Turns 69 If You are Lucky ‘You come to me quiet as rain not yet fallen’ Arrival Whatever Happened to Sex?

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