POIKILOPAIDIA

<p>The title POIKILOPAIDIA is Greek for a multicolored education. In fact the 198 poems collected spanning 60 years cover a wide variety of subjects such as one encounters during a long life rich in experience from the ordinary day-to-day to the extraordinary including erotic mystical intellectual artistic political philosophical and religious. The poems are composed in a variety of styles and metres from sonnets to free verse; and in a range of moods from grief to hilarity. Although deeply personal the collection includes 18 poems (cannily selected and translated by the author) from Sappho Lucretius Dante Cecco Cavalcanti Petrarch Campanella Leopardi Pascoli Cardarelli Hugo Baudelaire Mallarme' Stefan George Hesse and Rilke Several of the poems and translations are prefaced or followed by the author's explanatory notes and comments.</p><p><br></p><p>POIKILOPAIDIA incorporates the 22 poems previously published (in <em>Twilight with Halfmoon Rising: Selected Poems </em>by Peter Gimpel (1991).</p>