Forbidden Desire: The sexuality they tried to censor

Frank writing about desire that scandalized its age — Whitman, Lawrence, Chopin, and the poets who refused to pretend the body did not exist.

In this collection

• The Prussian Officer
• Old Salt Kossabone
• Apprehension
• Yet in an Hour to Come
• Upon this Age
• October-An Etching
• When it is Over
• Clearly my Ruined Garden
• Grow not too High
• How did I Bear It
• I Know the Face of Falsehood
• Armenonville
• Morning Work
• Figs (Fruits)
• Pomegranate (Fruits)
• Song of Myself
• Bat (Creatures)
• The Rainbow
• Sonnet in Dialectic
• Paradise Re-entered
• How Innocent we Lie Among
• Starting from Paumanok
• To the not Impossible Him
• See where Capella
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