The Penultimate Suitor Author:Mary Leader In The Penultimate Suitor Mary Leader strips away comfortable layers of poetic self-protection to arrive at a position of acute emotional self-conflagration. Each poem turns upon and returns to the infuriating and glorious correlations between love and art. Learning to love, learning to make art, trying to make beauty, trying to be a ... more » beautyall these efforts call for passionate explorations in the schools of art and love.« less