The Best American Erotic Poems Author:David Lehman The Best American Erotic Poems From 1800 to the Present — There is a deeop tradition of eroticism in American poetry. thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in this book celebrate this exuberant sensuality. with candor and imagination, they capture the pleausres and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, de... more »sire, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy.« less