"The poetry of lust and love...is rooted in spiritual longing.."

From from the Summer 1995 Catalogue of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics:

* Week One
**The Poetry of Lust of Love
Sam Hamill

The poetry of lust and love...is rooted in spiritual longing, as demonstrated by the poetics of Sappho and the amatory poems of the Greek anthology and the classical poets of India, China, and Japan. Drawing on these traditions, we explore the erotic lyrical imagination from alayman's Zen perspective, including a look at the poetry of several Zenmasters.