Judy Grahn takes her title from a poem commemorating the death of her first lover, but "love belongs to those who do the feeling" is far from elegiac. It bursts with life energy. Grahn writes of the erotic as "a force between artists...an enfusion of energy fueling the desire for change." "Belly dancers," she adds, "express love and spiritual community this way as well." Another brilliant California poet, Jack Spicer, remarked that poems must "echo and reecho against each other" "they cannot live alone any more than we can." It is such echoing and reechoing that we find in this selected poems. "The will to change"--Charles Olson's phrase--animates everything. Grahn's mentor Gertrude Stein insisted that the poet had to work "in the excitingness of pure being"; she must "get back that intensity into the language." Such intensity is always present in the work of this "common woman" who commonly achieves the miracle of accessibility without simplification. In our warmongering culture, the