Books like They Whisper

I ADORE this book. This is not the first time I've reread it. Robert Olen Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, takes us on alyrical journey into one man's erotic consciousness--a trip I'm happy to take over and over over again. When I feel a little too savage in my own mind, a little too brutal, I read it to restore a little tenderness in my own soul. A man's internal life -- full of memories of women, women he's loved, women he's only glanced briefly on a bus but never forgotten, memories hooked and brought to consciousness by the slightest smell, touch, bend in an ear… I find it exquisite--the poetry of men and their love of women, normally wordless, but given beautiful voice by Butler. A reader here says he would have been satisfied with a single line--but what a loss that would be.