Rose Always - A Court Love Story

Surprisingly sweet and gentle this love story of a crime victim and a troubled man an ex-offender consists of 85 brief lyrical poems and 24 narrative fragments. The book includes paraphrases of actual court records and allusions to the medieval tradition of courtly love. Inspired by The Songs of Songs with its surreal mixture of the erotic and the spiritual as well as by centuries of love poems from Sappho to Milosz this poetry collection is Maja Trochimczyk’s fourth book following a series of music studies (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music 2000; The Music of Louis Andriessen 2002; and Polish Dance in Southern California 2007). This edition features ten different poems new illustrations and a revised happy ending.