An Ode to Friendship by Robert Simon

$19.99

 

There is something difficult to address in the poems of Robert Simon’s new collection, An Ode To Friendship. Perhaps, it is the purity contained in the flagrantly traditional and formal language that wraps itself from cover to cover.

Some might find fault with such a jarring approach, given the 21st Century we find ourselves gasping through of late. I am of the other opinion. When reading Simon’s work, I become lost in what one must assume to have been a painfully liquid transition, through a seamless and unspecified period of time.

These are poems where technique meets soul; where that very same soul is in a constant struggle with its brother, intellect. Robert Simon sneaks up on us with this, and the result becomes a deliciously subtle agony, recognizing how tears and tears can intersect, causing delight in the midst of despair.

–Sam Pereira

 

El nuevo libro de poemas de Robert Simon vuelve a dar testimonio, una vez más, de su gran sensibilidad como escritor. Con brillantez y un matiz interno de cadencia musical que nos remite a su faceta como músico, Simon inicia un intenso y complejo trayecto por las emociones y el pensamiento, recorriendo todos los aspectos de la amistad desde el sentido profundo que el amor, en toda su pureza le confiere. Desde esta perspectiva, el poeta analiza la realidad con suma agudeza lírica, profundiza en las personas, en las sensaciones, en las experiencias dolorosas y felices, encuentra la belleza en sus seres queridos, en el fuego del amor y la creación, en la melancolía hacia el pasado, la expectación ante el futuro, y en el aprendizaje que todo el viaje vital supone. Y todo ello alternando el inglés con el español y el portugués. Un libro en el que destaca el virtuosismo de un artista de las letras y de la música, y que nos llega desde un latido auténtico por el que el lector se sentirá, sin duda, cautivado.

 

 

Description

An Ode to Friendship

by Robert Simon

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-505-5

2021

Robert Simon lives with his daughter in North Georgia and is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Kennesaw State University. He has published numerous books, articles, and other relevant texts on mysticism and otherness in the poetries of Angola, Portugal, and Spain. His poetry expresses a wish to find a deeper, loving connection with the people around him through themes of love, loss, redemption, and the triumph of the sublime. Robert also studies oboe performance and moonlights as an oboist.

 

 

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