Description - This book of poems is compiled by "Akshay Sonthalia". Different writers from around the globe have sent their entities based on global pandemic CORONA, exploring the emotions and politics of locking down, fearing & dancing with death, the choices left before us, and the emerging revelations, and many more things. They write out their dread, their fear, their boredom, their adventure, their confusion, and their contentment. The quality of these poems and the absolute originality of tone will certainly captivate all readers. The most impressive thing about these poems is the poet's power of vivid description. Anyone who is living through, or who has lived through, the Great Pandemic of 2020 will want to read this book. Authors are from mentioned counties: United States New Zealand India United Kingdom Denmark Philippines China Canada Nigeria Australia Germany Switzerland United Arab Emirates About this book: Layout: Compilation of poems themed around pandemic Corona Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 Inches Page Count: 168 Pages Page Quality: 90 GSM, acid-free paper Cover: Premium matte cover Binding: Paperback, Strong So what are you waiting for, grab your copy now and explore your journey of the pandemic through this book.

Ralph La Rosa, as the title indicates, has created a delightful collection of poetry pastiches and whimsical words-of-play, including playful sonnets, weird lists, clerihews, proverbs and converbs, tailgating couplets, strange rhymes, and auto-epitaphs of famous poets. Enjoy La Rosa's celebration and unique spin of the classics, as he pays homage to Dickinson, Whitman, Yeats, Frost, Plath, Keats, Pound, Williams and more. I have eaten the bacon that was in the fridge ... Readers will enjoy the poet's resurrection of famous poems as he uses them as springboards to tackle today's pop culture and politics. And to wrap it up, he ends with a brief story about Chinese and American writers, including Allen Ginsberg and Annie Dillard, whom La Rosa leads through Disneyland.

Ralph La Rosa's poems are rich with vibrant imagery and skillfully measured meter. Each poem, like living portraits, resonates with a sense of life that can only come from the artistic mastery of emotion and intellect. These poems revisit the past with shear honesty, delicately balancing his sweet melancholy with whimsical hope. La Rosa occasionally recalls his bruised ego from childhood, not with self-pity, but with an understanding of how those moments of doubt shapes one's character. From his father's endeavors to provide for his family to his mother's sly chiding, La Rosa ironically finds wholeness. Whether it was football or music, he reminds us of how a thoughtless comment can have a lasting effect. In a crisp moment of clarity, he brings us back to a time, when working in a record shop, he realized that the quality of a jazz musician was not measured by his masterful ability to squeeze out a series of colorful notes, but by the color of the artist's skin. An American Literature scion, La Rosa brings into focus his love of the transcendentalists, recalling Thoreau and Emerson. Better still, he keeps alive the ghosts of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson through imagined dialogues. These poems are a delight. -John Orozco, author of Delano and Eddie and the Inmates A dazzling variety of subjects and poetic forms, Ghost Trees admirably demonstrates La Rosa's command of craft: from lyrical evocations of joyful and wrenching episodes of childhood to odes commemorating young manhood's attentive acquaintance with the natural world to the mature artist's sonnets paying tribute to writers influencing his sensibilities as he observes the world. The wit and wisdom of Thoreau can be found in playful puns and rhymes and in deliberately detailed expressions of the natural world's beauty and destructive power. Religious paradoxes abound, worthy of Dickinson who makes her quaint, abbreviated appearance, yet who boldly challenges Whitman's expansive attempt to instruct her. Faith and doubt, piety and skepticism have no doctrinal solution in poems that look back to pagan Greeks and pay respect in turn to Catholicism and Transcendentalism. But paradoxes might be said to constitute a running motif in the collection: tenderness/strength, joy/sadness, family/isolation, celebration/grief, love/disillusion, life/death. La Rosa is literate, but that should not intimidate anyone, for his poetry is not obscure. He has taken Thoreau's advice to heart. Simplify. Good poets do that. And so La Rosa is like Frost, alluded to here, who suggests subtlety and depth with simple words. -Frederick Newberry is Emeritus Professor of American Literature at Duquesne University. He has edited two literary collections and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, and he has published a book and many articles on nineteenth-century American writers.

Collection of Sonnets, Odes and Rhymes - Three forms of Poems. Authors in the book - FrancisFlavin KadeBound Lily AnnaErb JoeVolpe RhondaRosenheck EdwardAhern EleanorCantor KendrykYoungblood NancyWu RalphLa Rosa JenCarl DianaRaab BrendanPraniewicz PeterPrizel SybleHeffernan SaraDudo IndigoErlenborn IsraelPadilla IsraelPadilla IsraelPadilla TonyMurray JoeVolpe LukePatitsas AustinDraper JaniceTatarka Anne-MarieSimonton

Sonnet Stanzas is a wide-ranging summary of a lifetime's experience starting as a six-year old entranced by the music of a school band, racing recklessly through traffic and climbing a tree to watch, horrifying his mother. In later life there's a 70-year old wondering where all the loose women have gone. There are poems of love and loss and of the complexities of adult relationships, along with humorous work including excellent parodies of Keats and Frost. Ralph La Rosa's first book has been a long time coming. It has been well worth the wait. David Anthony, author of Passing through the Woods. Ralph La Rosa's delightful poems, punctuated by bitter-sweet memories, touch gently on the psyche. In Sonnet Stanzas, the artist fuses lucid visions and measured rhythm, breathing the élan of life into each poem. La Rosa is an adept master who brings mythos in focus. John Orozco, author of Delano and Eddie and the Inmates.