Love Songs for a Certain Age

These erotic and passionate love songs, Frank Cebulski’s eighth book of poetry, have deep echoes in the enduring myth of Eros and Psyche, as so wonderfully told in The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius (second century CE), the main classical source for their story, where Apuleius also recounts his own metamorphoses, first into an ass and then his miraculous retransformation by the Goddess Isis into human form again. These poems therefore speak profoundly of the transformative power of love and erotic passion in its many guises. Each song, in fact, relates actual events of love and love making and the magic of sexual encounters where the physical touches and enflames the psyche.