Escape to Paradise and Other Poetic Fancies

While original poems in various forms by prize-winning author Tom Howard are the main feature of this collection the book also spotlights twenty-one of the poet's famous English translations of poetry produced in Spain and Latin America by such distinguished writers as Leopoldo Lugones Rosalia Castro Antonio Machado Ruben Dario Alfonsina Storni Miguel de Unamuno Amado Nervo Juan Ramon Jimenez Leonardo de Argensola Salvador Diaz Miron Lope de Vega Carpio Jose Maria Eguren Ramon Lopez Velarde Manuel Jose Othon the Marques de Santillana Gustavo Alfonso Becquer Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino and Julio Herrera y Reissig.