Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems

by Carol Frost

Love and New and Selected Poems combines twenty new poems by Carol Frost with a substantial selection of work from her previous seven books. In forms ranging from the sonnet to the lyric to the narrative, Frost's poems are fiery, passionate meditations on experience and consciousness.

Genres: Poetry

130 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

Carol Frost is the author of Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences (Tupelo Press, 2014). She teaches at Rollins College in Florida and spends summers in upstate New York.

Reviews

[Amy]

Finishing this is a Mother's Day gift to myself (because I did not care for it). Her language is actually really lush, but I found most of the poetry dense and I didn't care about trying to tease out the meaning. It was a lot of words, and also a lot about hunting?? Anyway, there were a few poems that did make me reread them, thought nothing ultimately blew my socks off. Meh.

Homo Sapiens
"With the beasts beside a pond,/ I conjure the inward sun to leap into my brain. What remains?/ Wild, beautiful petals all around./ A beast's face. And something, something else."

[Leslie K.]

Such a smooth read i finished it super quickly, great writing and talks about love in a not cringy way im TIRED of boohoo i loved u sm😭 so this was good to read

[Kent]

Oh, my. If you're familiar with poems by Ai, where she tells these potent narratives that simply explode on the page, then you can start to get some idea what Frost does, especially in the section called "Abstractions." I'm personally curious about how those abstraction poems might fit in the course of the book they were originally from (Love and Scorn is a selected, which has been arranged according to types of poems). They stand alone, but I imagine in the arc of a book they absolutely explode.

[Randall]

She should be in all the anthologies; she's one of a handful of the best American poets now writing.