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Love Is Poetry by Danil Rudoy is an English poetry collection of rhyming poems about love, women, desire, longing, wit, shame, devotion, loneliness, self-command and the discipline of form.
The book’s full subtitle, Rhyming Poems About Love Life, names its central wager: love can be made sharper through rhyme, meter and verbal exactness. The poems turn feeling into argument, comedy, confession, praise and trial.
Love Is Poetry belongs to Rudoy’s English books beside the novel Martina Flawd and the psychological fiction A Million for Eleanor. It is the clearest English book-length expression of Rudoy’s poetic form.
The book
Poetry collection
Love Is Poetry: Rhyming Poems About Love Life
Love Is Poetry gathers years of English rhyming poems in which love becomes a test of beauty, speech, memory, desire, humiliation, devotion and self-mastery.
The collection is built as a poetic journey through longing, comedy, erotic charge, distance, self-judgment, ambition, failure and the repeated attempt to make feeling exact.
What the book does
Love changes the speaker’s scale: it affects desire, thought, speech, memory, comedy, shame and bodily experience. It can lift the speaker toward form, or expose every weak place in him.
Rhyme and meter give the poems pressure. They make longing answer to order, turn embarrassment into cadence and force feeling to become memorable speech.
The beloved woman often becomes the center of value. She may appear as muse, judge, danger, angel, temptation, memory or absence. Through her, the speaker sees the shape of his own desire.
Poems and movements
Love Is Poetry includes movements and poems such as The Marriage Market, My Muse, A Tragicomic Read, Love Is, The Heartless Muse, Sonnet I, Sly Things Lovers Say, Poems About Love, The City Dark, The Endless Day and The Emperor of Self.
The Marriage Market
Love, choice, value, performance and the uneasy comedy of desire.
The Heartless Muse
Beauty, dependence, power, disappearance and artistic grief.
The Playwright’s Rights
Love and language as stage, argument, wit and theatrical pressure.
The Endless Day
Return, failure, wisdom, renewed strength and the struggle to become worthy of one’s own life.
Themes
Love as ordeal
Love brings rapture, shame, devotion, comedy, danger and the demand for higher self-possession.
Women as force
Female figures carry beauty, distance, command, erotic authority, judgment and the power to reorder the inner world.
Rhyme and meter
Form gives emotional experience shape. The poems make feeling pass through cadence, closure and verbal discipline.
Self-command
The lover is tested by pride, fear, loneliness, vanity, hope and the need to become stronger through speech.
Place in Danil Rudoy’s work
Martina Flawd develops obsession through fiction. Love Is Poetry develops love through rhyme, meter and direct address.
The book also leads toward the Russian poems, where love, women, fate, death, Russia, poetic vocation and symbolic order appear in a broader range of forms.
Where to go next
- Read the book: choose the paperback or Kindle edition of Love Is Poetry.
- Read selected love poems: continue with Rudoy’s English love poems.
- Open the wider poetry page: move from this book to Rudoy’s English poetry.
- Compare with the books page: place Love Is Poetry beside Martina Flawd and A Million for Eleanor.
- Continue in Russian: read Rudoy’s Russian love poems for the broader lyrical field.
FAQ about Love Is Poetry
What is Love Is Poetry?
Love Is Poetry is Danil Rudoy’s English poetry collection of rhyming poems about love life, women, desire, longing, wit, shame, devotion, loneliness and form.
What is the subtitle of Love Is Poetry?
The full subtitle is Rhyming Poems About Love Life.
What kind of poems are in the book?
The book includes rhyming love poems, sonnets, comic poems, sad poems, lyrical monologues and longer poetic movements about love, the muse, speech, longing and self-command.
Is Love Is Poetry available in paperback and Kindle?
Yes. Love Is Poetry is available as a paperback and as a Kindle edition on Amazon.
Where can readers find selected poems from the book?
Readers can continue to the English love poems page, which gathers selected poems and excerpts connected with Love Is Poetry.
How does Love Is Poetry connect to Danil Rudoy’s other books?
The book gives Rudoy’s English work its lyrical body: rhyme, meter, love, wit, longing and the wish to make feeling exact. It stands beside Martina Flawd and A Million for Eleanor inside the English books.