Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems

. Everyman's Library, $13.5 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-375-41170-0

""Longing,"" ""Looking,"" ""Loving,"" ""Ecstasy,"" ""Anxiety,"" ""Aftermath"" Academy of American Poets chancellor and Yale Review editor J.D. McClatchy (Twenty Questions, etc.) has sorted 144 poems by the above suggestive categories in Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems. This pocket ""Everyman"" edition includes Sappho, Whitman, Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Auden, Muriel Rukeyser, Frank O'Hara and many others. ( May 24)

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