Love Lessons: Poems 1973-2023 Author|Katianne Olson However Slaight comments near the

However Slaight comments near the end of her book that she wanted to 'live all lives all deaths encompass all women

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Love Lessons: Poems 1973-2023 Author|Katianne Olson However Slaight comments near theLove Lessons is Mary Ellen Capek's first collection of poems, spanning fifty years, where she describes growing up in the '50s, coming of age in the '60s, first love, sex, marriage, her mother's early death, friendships, divorce, stepchildren, and coming out as a lesbian at age 45. Several poems central to Love Lessons focus on language, paying tribute to Adrienne Rich and other writers struggling to realize Rich's "dream of a common language,"