Love Poems for the Millennium Author:Peter Johnson Poetry. Beginning and ending with pieces titled "Home," and moving through, among many other places, "Key West," "Cairo," "Fiesole," "Istanbul," "Tex-Mex" and "Sarajevo," this collection of 30 prose-poems, which are at times happily indistinguishable from short-short stories, chronicles a love affair with "Gigi" through astonishingly wide-r... more »anging world travels. "LOVE POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM is a poet's atlas. And as coincidence would have it, it happens to be exactly the right tour guide." (--Russell Edson) In "Paris," a white poodle named Gigi begs for a bone, in "Greenland" we learn that in Notre Dame Gigi "made a pass at her wrist with a razor," in "Berlin" we are privy to the cry, "Heal me, Doctor Gigi!" As changeable as the landscape, as chameleon-like as Gigi herself, these poems are a delight of wanderlust and wit.« less