Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung - Hardcover

A poetry collection featuring the work of such writers as e. e. cummings, Maya Angelou, and Dorothy Parker captures love's agonizing moments, broken hearts, and fluttering hopes, avoiding the falsely sentimental and cutting to the sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious core of love. 10,000 first printing.

Michelle Lovric has created over twenty anthologies, mostly exploring aspects of love, Her book, Love Letters AN ANTHOLOGY OF PASSION was a New York Times best-seller. She has also written four children's books. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. She has recently produced her own new translations of Latin and Greek love poetry for her book The Sweetness of Honey and the Sting of Bees, Words of Love from the Ancient Mediterranean.

She is currently researching the writings of John Ruskin and women's letters for forthcoming anthologies. Michelle Lovric lives and works in Covent Garden, London.