Love Speaks Its Name

Random no. between 1 & 256, page 26 of Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems features "Sonnet" by Richard Barnfield - one of 25 poems under the theme chapter "Longing". #goliwaliwph #june2018 #pages #lgbtpride pic.twitter.com/thZNRKBfOH

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Random number between 1 and 256, page 26 of Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems, part of the series of Everyman's Library Pocket Poets (Alfred A. Knopf, publisher), features "Sonnet" by Richard Barnfield - one of 25 poems under the theme chapter "Longing".

In the Foreword, by the book's editor J.D. McClatchy (page 15):

Our lesbian and gay poets have been forced to learn love's harshest lessons the better to understand its sweetest instructions. They know more about what is disallowed in the pursuit of happiness, more about the false leads and wrong turns of passion, more about the emergencies of a double life, more about love's secret passages, its private mythologies, its defiant pride, its beguiling joy. 

This month on liwaliw Pages, I pre-selected titles from my personal library for the observance of LGBT Pride. Love wins.


[This posting is antedated: 20180614]