Susan Budd

Loves Susan Budd

"Loves" is a fantasia of passion, temptation, and redemption. The lovers in this collection of twenty-five story poems are drawn from the pages of literature and life. An innocent Eve succumbs to the wily serpent in the Garden of Eden. A fairy tale princess longs for her knight. A lovesick woman goes mad in a Shakespearean nightmare. Newlyweds revel in sensuality. A young widow dreams of her beloved. A beautiful hippie finds magic in the mundane. In settings that range from gardens of paradise to dark woods of despair, the characters in this volume experience loves both sacred and profane, from the innocence of puppy love to the decadence of forbidden love, from the obsession of unrequited love to the melancholy of lost love. And it all begins with an apple.