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The Mirror of Love

By Alan Moore, Robert Rodi, Jose Villarrubia, David Drake

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| Hardcover | 9781891830457

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This epic poem recounts the history of same-sex love, revealing a hidden side of Western culture through the lives of its greatest artists. Sappho, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, and many others are woven into this rich, visceral piece. Originally written fourteen years agoContinue

This epic poem recounts the history of same-sex love, revealing a hidden side of Western culture through the lives of its greatest artists. Sappho, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, and many others are woven into this rich, visceral piece. Originally written fourteen years ago, The Mirror of Love sprang from Moore's activist heart as a reaction to Britain's controversial anti-gay law, Clause 28. In the past, Mirror has been translated into both a comic book and a stage production, but Top Shelf presents it as it was meant to be, a hardcover book illustrated with over forty full-color photographs from acclaimed artist Jose Villarrubia. Included in the 128-page special edition is an essay about the poem and its previous incarnations, an index of characters and places, a selection of classic poems quoted in the text, and a bibliography.

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    Poetry and history, culture... rights. And love, a lot of complicated passionate love. You read it, you start imagine what it feels like to love like I do. Like we do. Seems just like you do, uh? :)

    Thanks for this precious gift, friends!

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    mirtillotta said on Jan 8, 2011 | 1 feedback

  • Ok this wasn't so much a comic but a prose poem that had been illustrated with photographs. For the most part the photos were inconsequential to me. The prose was absouletly gorgeous though. Here was the history of homosexuality in Europe is told in a wonderful sympathetic and sweet way.

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    Robot-mel said on Apr 24, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 136 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1891830457
  • ISBN-13: 9781891830457
  • Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
  • Pub date: Nov 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 1290 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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