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Erotic, extensive, and evocative\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n In her latest tantalizing collection, Benson draws from both her own hopeless romantic persona and the shared human experience, capturing the spirit and gist of emotional and physical love. The first poem \u201cShe Is,\u201d is a meditation on the mythification of a woman. Beautifully complex and meaningful \u201cBefore Sunrise,\u201d uses erotic and sensual love-making to evoke a wide range of poignant emotions and navigates themes of both love and lust by creating a narrative ripe with powerful imagery. Benson blends vivid descriptions, passionate observation, and private dreams in \u201cBefore Sunrise\u201d. Her best lyrics are intense, erotic, and deeply personal, such as in \u201cMelting Fortress,” there are arousing description, sketches of a couple passionately in love, of erotic moments, of sensual nights as she writes: \u201cThey blend as one against the pitch of night \/ In harmony, \/ Earnest grasps between them, almost breathless.\u201d or the vastly erotic \u201cInsatiable Hearts,\u201d in which the world play can be seen at its best as the protagonist says: \u201cMoans escape, restraint not an option with the tides \/ of their golden moon upon them \/ they make love, long and hard.” In the sexually suggestive \u201cRapture,\u201d Benson, through her protagonists\u2019 love-making gives the sense of an author not only documenting every thought but also the individual moments including tenderness, passion, ecstasy, and revelations. In \u201cThe Isle of Bravery,\u201d Benson uses the second-person narrative to intensify the closeness between the reader and the subject: \u201cWe call to you in the silence of the wavering moon, \/ the fire burning bright within the sheltered \/ emotions of our heart.\u201d The profoundly affecting \u201cLove\u2019s Fool,\u201d exhibits Benson\u2019s aptitude for capturing sensuality with vivid imagery as her protagonist, engulfed deeply in passion surrenders herself to the man she loves. Poignant and raw \u201cStar bright,\u201d touches on loneliness and the pain of separation, bringing depth and resonance to the familiar experience. \u201cChains\u201d is about heartbreak and love gone sour. Erotic, dreamy, and universal, this short collection of love poems examines the emotional spectrum from being in love and the passion that it surrounds to the unbearable aftermath of separation. Writing with exuberance and a rush of adrenaline, Benson paints vivid emotional images of the love her protagonists feel for each other, making this an eloquent gift for a romantic occasion. Sensual and deeply emotive, this book remains an introspective lyric of love and lust.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Erotic, extensive, and evocative\u2026 In her latest tantalizing collection, Benson draws from both her own hopeless romantic persona and the shared human experience, capturing the spirit and gist of emotional and physical love. The first poem \u201cShe Is,\u201d is a meditation on the mythification of a woman. Beautifully complex and meaningful \u201cBefore Sunrise,\u201d uses erotic and sensual love-making to evoke a wide range of poignant emotions and navigates themes of both love and lust by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An Editorial Book Review Website\n\nBook review: Lonely Kings and Queens: Modern Poetry For Lovers by Julie Steeves Benson #amreading #WritersLife #Author #writingcommunity #amwriting #writers #juliasteevesbenson #lonelykingsandqueens","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[91,460,3328,178,1136176,610903656,54306025,422,531468,1473,309,349],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-indieauthor","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-collection","tag-reading","tag-reviews","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-13m","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lonely Kings and Queens: Modern Poetry For Lovers<\/h2>\n
By Julie Steeves Benson<\/h3>\n
Buy now<\/a><\/h4>\n
FriesenPress<\/h4>\n
Pub date June 29, 2018<\/h4>\n
ISBN 978-1525526411<\/h4>\n
Price $22.99 (USD) Paperback, $29.99 Hardcover, $10.31 Kindle edition<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"