What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria

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Obsessive love has never been so much fun! What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria is a powerful tribute to the intensity of obsessive love, told through the trademark humor and heartbreak of bestselling poet Kim Dower.

Following the commercial and literary success of her bestselling poetry collection, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom: Poems on Motherhood, Kim Dower delivers What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoriaturning her keen eye, vibrant imagination, trademark insight, and humor to the intensity of obsessive love. These steamy and provocative poems, combining humor and heartache, run through the four phases of Limerence, the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person: Infatuation, Crystallization, Deterioration, and Ecstatic Release. From the opening poem, Shell do anything for food, to the sexy title poem, What She Wants, the painfully funny, His Other Girlfriend, to the longing in Visiting Baudelaire, and the sad, sweet final poem, Fishs Lament, Kim Dower captures the essence of what it means to be stuck on someoneeven on a squirrel! Her eclectic, growing readership will savor these poems that can be read in one sitting, like a story with an arc, or separately, each one recalling the moment of falling in or out of love, the moment our hearts skipped a beat.

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Kim Dower, born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is the former City Poet Laureate for West Hollywood, California. She is the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including the Los Angeles Times bestseller and 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom; the 2020 Gold IPPY Awards winner, Sunbathing on Tyrone Powers Grave; Air Kissing on Mars; and Slice of Moon. Dowers poems have been featured on Garrison Keillors The Writers Almanac and Ted Koosers American Life in Poetry, as well as in many anthologies and journals, including Ploughshares, James Dickey Review, Plume, and Barrow Street. She teaches poetry workshops for Antioch University, UCLA Extension, and the West Hollywood Library. Kim lives with her family in West Hollywood, California.