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This book of love poetry is a tapestry made with threads of impressions, memories, emotions, images, visions, and dreams. This third, illustrated version of a timeless love story is rich in poems (181), photos of roses (96), and expressions of love and compassion. It draws from international traditions of love poetry, ranging from the The Songs of Songs, through Buddhist and Hindu stories, and words of Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Little Prince, Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Rumi, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Czes¿aw Mi¿osz. Dante's Il Paradiso was a great inspiration and so was Goethe and a number of jazz standards, and folk ballads.…mehr

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This book of love poetry is a tapestry made with threads of impressions, memories, emotions, images, visions, and dreams. This third, illustrated version of a timeless love story is rich in poems (181), photos of roses (96), and expressions of love and compassion. It draws from international traditions of love poetry, ranging from the The Songs of Songs, through Buddhist and Hindu stories, and words of Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Little Prince, Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Rumi, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Czes¿aw Mi¿osz. Dante's Il Paradiso was a great inspiration and so was Goethe and a number of jazz standards, and folk ballads.
Autorenporträt
Maja Trochimczyk is a poet, music historian, photographer and non-profit director born in Poland, educated in Canada (Ph.D., McGill University), and living in California (www.trochimczyk.net). She published or edited eight books of research studies (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music; The Music of Louis Andriessen; Polish Dance in California; A Romantic Century in Polish Music; Gorecki in Context; F. Chopin Research Guide; and Album 50-lecia Klubu) and eleven books of poetry, including five anthologies: Chopin with Cherries, Meditations on Divine Names; Grateful Conversations; We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology; and Crystal Fire. Her poetry and photography appear in numerous journals to mention only: California Quarterly; Houston Literary Review, Ekphrasis Journal, Epiphany Magazine, Loch Raven Review, Magnapoets, Quill and Parchment, Phantom Seed, Poezja Dzisiaj, Cosmopolitan Review, and poeticdiversity. A former Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, she is the founder of Moonrise Press, President of the California State Poetry Society, Managing Editor of the California Quarterly and Poetry Letter published by CSPS, and President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, promoting Polish culture in California. Hundreds of her articles and book chapters appeared in English, Polish, and in translations. She read papers at over 90 international conferences and received many awards from Polish, Canadian and American institutions.