
What She Wants
by Kim Dower
Title:
What She Wants
Author:
Kim Dower
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
136 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Red Hen Press
ISBN-13:
9781636282633
EAN:
9781636282633
Publication Date:
27/02/2025
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
422
Dimensions (mm):
216 x 157 x 16
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
“A witty, sultry, and thoughtful new collection."—Ron Charles, Washington Post 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, Euphoria—turning 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, “She’ll 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, “Fish’s Lament,” Kim Dower captures the essence of what it means to be stuck on someone—even 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.











