Beautiful and sensual poems written in epistolary style of letters to the great Chilean poet and nobel prize winner. The author uses Neruda as a mentor, friend, and frequent presence in her life. The poetry is personal, emotional and questioning of the complexities of life. It is sad, funny, thoughtful, playful, and observant of life over many years. Rich verse, yet very approachable poems. Readers will relate to the wide variety of experiences and emotions from lost time to joyous frogs, from baseball to road trips to New Mexico.
Viola is an accomplished poet and the first poet laureate of Sacramento.
The lifecycle of the planet is bubbling up in the marsh
The lifeblood of the planet is thumping with energy
All along the fence, birds sit under the accidential hedgerow
of overgrown bushes of uncertain origin
nature is planning a come back despite the war
wanton weeds are on the march, busy little insurgents of life
No one knows why this force is stronger than the stock exchange
or more magnetic than busty, dead starlets--it just is
spilling out waves and rays of unreasonable hope
a splendid trick of the universe, Pablo
just as your lavish love of ordinary things made
a woman see what is real and what is a figment of the machine
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This comment is in reference to "Lorenzo's Story". and hopefully getting in touch with Viola Weinberg?
the story was about my Uncle.
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