From Sappho to Shakespeare and Cole Porter – a wonderful and expansive collection of classic love poetry for same-sex couples. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico García Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems about love are among the most insightful, the most passionate, the most inventive, and the most moving we have. From Mikhail Agathon's "Love Misinterpreted" to Noël Coward's "Mad About the Boy," from May Swenson's "Symmetrical Companion" to Muriel Rukeyser's "Looking at Each Other," these poems explore the desire and power of love in all its tender or challenging varieties.