This new collection from the editor of Passionate Hearts: The Poetry of Sexual Love and author of The Sexual Healing Journey includes 121 poems by such poets as Rumi, Marge Piercy, Emily Dickinson, Nikki Giovanni, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, Octavio Paz, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Therapist and marriage counselor Wendy Maltz turns up the heat while celebrating healthy sexuality in this collection of poems that dispel the negative cultural message that what feels good must be bad. Maltz's anthologies are designed to inspire couples toward a deeper physical intimacy and to show that the sexual impulse can be aroused by conveying personal experience through great writing. These intensely personal poems reveal how experiences of profound sexual pleasure can connect individuals and couples with their human spirit, their beloved partner, and the sensuality of love. Wendy Maltz, a well-known sex therapist and marriage counselor, is the author of The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse, coauthor of The Porn Trap: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Problems Caused by Pornography, Private Thoughts: Exploring the Power of Women's Sexual Fantasies, and editor of Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, which serves as a companion book to Passionate Hearts. Maltz is codirector, with her husband Larry, of Maltz Counseling Associates. Her website is www.HealthySex.com. "I am grateful beyond expression for Wendy Maltz's achievement. It gives me hope by calling on one of the more significant gifts of sexuality - the sensuous pleasure of well-selected, well-mated words."
