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When an event, scene, or emotion catches Steven Swank's interest, it tunes his focus and attention. As he perceives the weight, texture, scent, and sound of it, he writes it down. Some poems spill out of the pen; others must be chipped free of clutter. Some poems happen; others are imagined, conjured, or found as stray parts and assembled. In this book you will find poems that entertain, trouble, delight, or amuse. In these pages you will find poems of nature, kindness, mistrust, angst, calm, and beauty; and poems wry with humor, emotion, and insight.

Banned from school, parks, movie theaters-banned from all public places!-shy twelve-year-old Lisl Malkin is trying to escape from German-occupied Austria. Inthis frank, riveting tale, she describes the consequences of that effort. her animated portrayal of confrontations with the Gestapo is bone-chilling. She is finally taken to England by the Kindertransport. She poignantly depicts overcomingher loneliness there during the war, her determination to preserve her Jewish identity, and her eventual embrace of British values. Through tears, laughter, and persistence, she triumphs in achieving independence in America and building a life through marriage, children, and a meaningful career.

Roy Lucianna's poetry, like everything else about him, is by turns sharp, puckish, and deeply wise-but always, always heartfelt, real as rain, and defiantly human. He devoted himself for decades to the Tao, and mastered and taught taiji and qi-gong to many hundreds of acolytes. An artist whose work explored all aspects of these spiritual pursuits, he performed as well in an array of musical settings. Gathered here are those poems he wished to preserve in easily accessible form. As was true of all his work, he wanted to send them into the ocean of the Tao. Mr. Lucianna held a B.A. from New York University, an M.A. from Hunter College, and engaged in Ph.D. studies in Medieval and Modern Art at Columbia University.

Michael Milano's second collection of stories and poems-wry, surprising, and thought-provoking, extends the range and interest of the earlier "Conversations and Poetry" in deeply affecting ways. He has spent a lifetime as a psychiatrist plumbing the depths of the human mind and heart, and his work shows it. You will be carried away by this humane, clear-headed volume.