The City of Women A Sequence of Poems and Prose [Paperback]

In a style that ranges through narrative, commentary, vignette, and verse, this is a sustained meditation on the nature and origins of erotic love. Sherod Santos, author of two previous volumes of verse, Beautifully rendered.... Santos's greatest accomplishment here is not that he provides answers for the unanswerable, but that he convinces readers that love creates words whose syllables we are laved in, / Whose meanings keep endlessly coming to pass.