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    "description": "<p><i>Of Love and Desire </i>is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Berni\u00e8res, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms \u2013 from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. </p><p>Poetry was de Berni\u00e8res\u2019 first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality and emotion of his poems, which are full of stories and the truth of lived experience. This, his second collection, bears the mark of many influences, from the classical Persian poets, to Neruda, to Quintus Smyrnaeus, to Brian Patten.</p><p><b>Beautifully illustrated by Doland Sammut, this is an indispensable companion on the lover\u2019s journey.</b></p>",
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