You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems

You Are My Joy and Pain is Naomi Long Madgett's latest and possibly most endearing poetry collection. These are not love poems in the abstract-the richness with which Madgett writes hints at the firsthand experience of a lifetime of loving. While several anthologies of love poems exist in the world, it is rare to find a single-author collection that so closely examines love in all of its messy and beautiful layers.