{"id":42686,"date":"2025-12-03T10:49:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42686"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:49:32","slug":"i-have-danced-with-angels-selected-love-poems-by-joe-giampaolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42686","title":{"rendered":"I Have Danced With Angels: Selected Love Poems by Joe Giampaolo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A lush, luminous collection that explores love in all its beauty, complexity, and ache.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giampaolo gathers a life shaped by longing, beauty, and emotional intensity in his latest collection. Drawn from four earlier books, these poems trace the shifting landscapes of love\u2014its turbulence, serenity, and the mysterious forces that bind two people across time and imagination. Romance anchors the book, but memory, nature, and dreamlike perception deepen its undertow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early poems radiate awe. In \u201cUnder Your Spell,\u201d he confesses, <em>\u201cthe energy of an exploding star\/ is within your eyes contained,\u201d<\/em> capturing the collection\u2019s fascination with lovers as celestial beings. In \u201cA New Kingdom,\u201d he hungers for language vast enough to hold devotion: <em>\u201cWe need a new lexicon,\/ maybe, a whole new language\/ to describe our sentiments.\u201d <\/em>Desire here is powerful, even perilous. \u201cA Twig in the Storm\u201d exposes its force as <em>\u201cyour yearning flesh\/ resists this tsunami of passion.\u201d<\/em> In \u201cDeep Craving,\u201d he searches cities for a vanished lover only to realize, <em>\u201cYou had already found a safe hiding place\/ in a corner of my heart.\u201d <\/em>The shorter forms offer clarity and quiet revelation. In the tanka \u201cSatori,\u201d he writes, <em>\u201cA timeless secon\/ of stillness; an undefined\/ shimmering beauty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part mourning, part exaltation, this is a meditation on how love wounds, transforms, and ultimately enlarges us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Have-Danced-Angels-Selected-Passion\/dp\/B0FPGHQF75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Pub date October 1, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 979-8289003744<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Age 12-14 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Price $12.99 (USD) Paperback, $2.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lush, luminous collection that explores love in all its beauty, complexity, and ache. Giampaolo gathers a life shaped by longing, beauty, and emotional intensity in his latest collection. Drawn from four earlier books, these poems trace the shifting landscapes of love\u2014its turbulence, serenity, and the mysterious forces that bind two people across time and imagination. Romance anchors the book, but memory, nature, and dreamlike perception deepen its undertow. Early poems radiate awe. 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