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à Last year we sent out a call for poems and very short stories: Love Calls—Love Comes in Unexpected Ways, Surprise Us! We ourselves were surprised by the number of submissions on this entrancing and captivating topic. We received more than 250 excellent poems, so in this issue, Psychoanalytic Perspectives is delighted to run Love Calls II.
This collection contains poems from Scotland, England, the Dordogne in southwest France, Toronto, L.A., and the Chickasaw Nation.
The many aspects of love range from love of one's land, love of home, of sharing a bed, the painful loss of love, the athletics of love, and the possible synchronization of two hearts.
Of the three psychoanalyst poems offered here, one is set in the consulting room where a patient is only able to love his dog, Cero. Another insomniac analyst awakens in the middle of the night, haunted by midnight fantasies of her husband's betrayal. A third analyst writes about truthfulness between a couple growing older together.
A poem by actress Rebecca De Mornay is entitled “My Heart Is a Well.”
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On the evening of January 19, 2012, Psychoanalytic Perspectives' Creative section premiered its first-ever Creative Salon Series with “Talk Poetry to Me,” celebrating our creative spirit and honoring our most original, imaginative, and luminous selves.
The evening began and ended with love poems. The NIP conference room was totally transformed into a Paris salon of the 1930s à la Gertrude Stein, whose regular guests included Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, Man Ray, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound.
The overflow crowd listened intently to infant and child researcher and psychoanalyst Beatrice Beebe read Robert Stolorow's poem “Grief Chronicles” then two of her husband's poems (the poet Edward McCrorie). Thomas Ogden's poem “Crumbs” (his first poem was published here in the Creative section of Psychoanalytic Perspectives in 2005) was read by his niece, clinical psychologist Emily Ogden,