1. Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Publisher: HarperOne
Written By: Coleman Barks

The Sufi mystic and poet Jalaluddin Rumi is most beloved for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love in all its forms—erotic, platonic, divine—and Coleman Barks presents the best of them in this delightful and inspiring collection. Rendered with freshness, intensity, and beauty as Barks alone can do, these startling and rich poems range from the "wholeness" one experiences more..

2. Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Written By: Mr. Richard Siken

Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking.
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3. Love Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
Publisher: New Directions
Written By: Pablo Neruda

Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!"

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images more..

4. Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Written By: Anne Carson

Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book by an author whose acclaim has been steadily growing since the book was first published in 1986 by Johns Hopkins.

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. more..

5. 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Written By: Pablo Neruda

Against the backdrop of Isla Negra — the sea and wind, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wild flowers, the hot sun and salty smells of the Pacific — Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda sets these joyfully sensual poems in celebration of his love. The subject of that love: Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, the poet's "beloved wife."

As popular in the Hispanic world as the poet's more..

6. The Little Book of Love
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Written By: Kahlil Gibran, Suheil Bushrui

Original and profound, this beautiful little book is the perfect Valentine’s Day alternative to those tired collections of clichéd romantic verse. Regarding it as the raison d’être of the universe, Kahlil Gibran was never more insightful than when he wrote about love. Now for the first time, and illustrated with the poet’s own paintings, his reflections on love and friendship have more..

7. The Oxytocin Opera: By Bret Hoveskeland
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Written By: Bret Hoveskeland

The Oxytocin Opera details the troubled modern love story of a young couple, Billy and Sestina, in short, lush lyric poetry and short fiction. Each piece tells its own story, but together they tie in to form a complete two part narrative. Rich with snippets of cross genre pop culture, such as pop music, literature, art, mythology, monsters and classic films, this little book invites readers to more..

8. Twenty Poems to Bless Your Marriage: And One to Save It
Publisher: Shambhala
Written By: Roger Housden

Poems can teach us in ways that surpass other forms of understanding, especially when the subject concerns matters of the heart. When the heart’s whispers are too faint for us to hear in ordinary ways, poetry can speak to us with another kind of eloquence.

From the leap of joy that a couple takes on their wedding day to a fiftieth wedding anniversary that acknowledges the deep more..

9. Love Letters of Great Men
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Written By: John C. Kirkland

When words of love do not come to you on their own, then read these letters. Complete, actual love letters of great men like Lord Byron, John Keats and Voltaire. Leaders like Henry VIII, George Washington, and Napoléon, who wrote to his beloved Joséphine, 'I awake consumed with thoughts of you...' Artists like van Gogh, Mozart, and Beethoven, who famously penned, 'Though still in bed, my more..

10. Into The Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Written By: Robert Hass, Stephen Mitchell

For brides and grooms who want to give their weddings new depth and meaning, two acclaimed poet-translators have gathered a stunning collection of poems and prose that will add a unique and personal dimension to the ceremony. more..