Thirty Days Hath April

This is a reprint of a classic originally published in 1999 by Zeugma Publishing Company, and now re-issued as an e-book for the first time.

"Sophisticated...entertaining...illuminates the many avenues of sexual pleasure...a future classic. " - Venus Book Club (a registered trademark of Doubleday Direct, Inc.)

Daphne moves into the apartment across the hall from John in the middle of March, and they agree to have sex every day during the month of April, a titular framework that contains the potential for many sex scenes. The reader is not disappointed. Nor is Becky, John's childhood sweetheart and presumptive bride-to-be, who returns from a visit to her grandmother early in April. Lots of sex. Steamy, spicy, satisfying erotica. Yes, the sex is explicit, but there is something more here, something harder to explicate. It has something to do with our sexuality being a part of our humanity; or maybe with our humanity being part of our sexuality.

Life is more than sex, but both are larger than all our words. A good lover must be a good human being, aware of his/her lover minutely and correctly. The good human being. The good lover. Which comes first? Yes, she comes first. An ineffable tangle of ideas and feelings. It takes a poem to capture the grandeur that is sex; the glory that is love. Someplace in this remarkable volume, there is a scene, a talk, a story within a story, something that will startle you into understanding sex (or life) in an important and vivid new way. Listen to your body. Follow your heart. Be kind to your web-footed friends. We cannot say what can only be discovered. Teach me tonight.