A Poetry Of Remembrance

Levi Romero recalls the tradiciones of life in northern New Mexico--a way of life seldom represented in American poetry.

Levi Romero recalls the tradiciones of life in northern New Mexico--a way of life seldom represented in American poetry.

In life no one's journey is the same. We all face our individual challenges. Our journey as women is unique. Each encounter we have, every experience we go through, shapes us in some way. Some events occur and barely cause a ripple in our lives, while others send shockwaves throughout our entire being. No matter the magnitude of these events, they are all our teachers. In love we learn the greatest lessons. We discover our desires, our limitations, the intensity of our feelings, the passion in our hearts, and the strength of our spirits that allow us to persevere. It is believed that pain is a process that forces change. This is a book of change. These are poems of those events that as time passes, never fade from memory. They become the seeds of change that transform us into the individuals we are today. These are poems of a woman's journey, the seeds of where she is from.

This is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century. Both absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, it weaves literary, medical, and military lore to give us a fascinating history of war neuroses and their treatment, from the World Wars through Vietnam and up to the Gulf War.

Comfort, inspiration to the bereaved in the form of 90 poems by over 60 poets, including Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Browning, Whitman, Swinburne, Kipling, Frost, and Auden.