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For poet Steven Nightingale, the sonnet is not just a poetic form, it is the form of our dreams: the dream that poetry can take the mind home to original beauties, that the life of each of us is bound to a joy at the midmost of the world, that language can tease a bright reality from the catastrophes of the day, that we may learn to change ourselves, in hopes of becoming hidden sidekicks of light, useful, practical, bemused.

For poet Steven Nightingale, the sonnet is not just a poetic form, it is the form of our dreams.

The haiku is an intense, concentrated form, ideal for portraying the atrocious darkness of our times, and also the exaltations of life possible when love and understanding come into unity. In this book of poems, which moves the haikuform towards incantation, we are shown the ferocity of danger before us, and also a way forward--a jailbreak, a healing, the recognition of a place of safety. It's where we know a concord of souls, erotic communion...

For poet Steven Nightingale, the sonnet is not just a poetic form, it is the form of our dreams: the dream that poetry can take the mind home to original beauties, that the life of each of us is bound to a joy at the midmost of the world, that language can tease a bright reality from the catastrophes of the day, that we may learn to change ourselves, in hopes of becoming hidden sidekicks of light, useful, practical, bemused.

For poet Steven Nightingale, the sonnet is not just a poetic form, it is the form of our dreams: the dream that poetry can take the mind home to original beauties, that the life of each of us is bound to a joy at the midmost of the world, that language can tease a bright reality from the catastrophes of the day, that we may learn to change ourselves, in hopes of becoming hidden sidekicks of light, useful, practical, bemused.

The author's fourth collection of sonnets.

The haiku is an intense, concentrated form, ideal for portraying the atrocious darkness of our times, and also the exaltations of life possible when love and understanding come into unity. In this book of poems, which moves the haiku form towards incantation, we are shown the ferocity of danger before us, and also a way forward--a jailbreak, a healing, the recognition of a place of safety. It's where we know a concord of souls, erotic communio...

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A literary homage to this iconic city, a World Heritage site. It combines a fascinating portrait of the city and the joyous life the author's family experienced there.

Granada is one of the iconic cities of the world. It stands for the culture of Al-Andalus, composed of Moslems, Jews, and Christians, who lived together in the legendary convivencia of the Spanish Middle Ages. Al-Andalus gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only with those of classical Athens, Ming China, or Renaissance Italy. Granada resident Steven Nightingale excavates the rich past of his adopted city an...