In "Love and the Soul's" title poem, a male speaker asks "not to believe/that what lights up the world from within is always the wrong thing" and is answered by a female speaker midway through the book who says "I don't think men and women/are meant to have relationships any more." Between these poles, Williamson's powerful collection explores the enormous burden of expectation that our culture has placed on love and its gifts to the soul. Following are a few lines from his poem "Epilogue" (Copyright by The University of Chicago): We will not see the gardens of old age. They were made for us, but we got there too soon, carrying our coffee cups into them after breakfast, or at rest amid the daylong books, with the fixed smiles of those who have outworn love's aggressions, to see the other gardens where love is beyond aggression....
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