Boccaccio in Florence and Other Poems

<p>In 2002 and 2005 Menard Press published <em>Then and Now - Words in the Dark</em> and <em>From Now to Then</em> as the first two books of a three-part work-in-progress. <em>Boccaccio in Florence and Other Poems</em> is a selection from the on-going third instalment Opus 3. It is also intended as a book in itself with a structure differing from Opus 3 as a whole. Whereas the latter when completed will be arranged thematically in three parts dealing with the emotional/physical ethical and spiritual life respectively the order of the poems in the selection is more or less chronological - from Boccaccio and the Dance of Death to the present day. This arrangement offers the reader a historical pre-view of the three fundamental components or concerns of human life on which Opus 3 is based while exemplifying the various sorts of poetry and prose to be found in it.</p>