The Endless Ampersand

The Endless Ampersand: Love Poems 2017-2018 is a new volume of poetry from the author and artist Robert Benefiel. Though not written with any one person in mind, the work which comprises this book is considered the third and final book of love poems (along with Love Is What You Think It Is and Femina Aeterna). As the title suggests, The Endless Ampersand is meant to demonstrate the feeling of eternity when in love. Ranging from straight forward longing to the surrealistically erotic, the poems included here carry through themselves a wide range of tone and subject, expressing the emotional weight needed of vulnerability, the obsession that it can take to be in love, and the strength it takes to stay that way. Sometimes romantic, sometimes funny, yet always candid, the poems never stray from their original message: Being in love, even with all its challenges, is far better than being unloved, for we may feel like fools doing it, but we look like bigger fools if we give up on it.