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Marked by a delightful radiance and beauty of form, the finely crafted poems gathered here will regale you with rich tapestries of love, history, and the natural world. Here, too, are colorful, exquisitely sculpted stories -comic, tragic, zany, lyrical, and even macabre-that feature larger-than-life characters in a cavalcade of quirky incidents sure to bring you unstinting delight. Gilgamesh walks here. Vesuvius erupts. Galileo confesses and Quixote remembers. Barbarians invade, lovers yearn, infants slumber, death approaches, and widowers grieve. Dancers twirl, wolves howl, and between times joyful bedlam often prevails. Permeating all, however, is an intense love of life revealed through an affectionate (and sometimes jarring) sweep of times and circumstances-from crowded buses in midtown Manhattan to mythic gods by Egypt's Nile, from gaudy sands in moneyed Palm Beach to raging fires devouring Pompeii. Rejecting the often anemic, myopic spirit of so much literature today, these energetic tales and lovely poems combine vast erudition with Robert Frost-like simplicity, ensuring that, regardless of your background or training, you'll find in this sumptuous literary banquet many things to make your own spirit soar, today, tomorrow, and forever!

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Born in Cambridge, MA, in 1940 and raised in New York and New Jersey, Johann Moser has traveled widely and even spent time living in Europe.His early international sojourns intensified his already keen love of history and of the literatures of foreign cultures.He learned many languages to enable him to read the world's greatest literary works in their original languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English, French, Italian, and German.Moser's years of study here and abroad and his love of great books, old and new, nurtured in him a highly classical understanding of literature that emphasizes beauty of form as its primary value.Forth from Moser's multicultural studies and wide experiences come these carefully crafted poems and stories, ranging from light verse and zany tales to grand elegies and yes, even modest confessions of tenderest love.So here for your delight is a rich banquet of many voices in diverse genres and forms, East and West, old and new.

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