Fragmementos

<i>Fragmementos</I> is the exercise of a broad poetic license by Milton Rosen from his teenage years through war and a working life and into a Florida retirement. The poems reflect and refract nine decades of living observing life and pondering the universe.</P><p>The poems present a scattered collection of lyrical musing quests for unifying truths and whimsical and fantastical observations inspired by both science and science fiction. Descriptions of love in all its scintillations-flirtation romance illusion and loss-weave in and out; and four years of a youth spent in World War II are reflected in the beauty of far places and the poignancy and humor of a soldier's life.</P><p>'The pun is low.it makes us all see red states one verse. Beware! Sprinkled through <i>Fragmementos</i> like little firecrackers are punning poems of the silliest sort in shades of scarlet vermillion and fire engine red!</P><p>Milton Rosen's poems have appeared regularly in <i>Bell's Letters</I> and have been published in <i>The Oak</I> <i>Parnassus Literary Journal</I> <i>Saint Joseph's Messenger</I> and <i>Poetry.com</I>. <i>Five Poems of Milton Rosen</I> composed by Daniel Guss in 1976-1977 for baritone singer horn and violoncello debuted at the University of Connecticut Storrs in February 1977.</P>