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Poems of Love
By: Viviana Hall
About the Book
In challenging times such as these, it is good and necessary to have books like Poems of Love, to remind us of the fundamental force of love and its potential to transform our lives and our world.
In this first bilingual edition, Poems of Love emerges as an inspiration for joy, gratitude, and compassion.
About Ms. Hall’s work, acclaimed writer Cesar Tiempo said: “Viviana’s poetry reconciles us with hope, one of the few movements of the soul capable of battling despair.”
“A collection offers English and Spanish love poems that explore nature.
This volume opens with both English and Spanish versions of Walt Whitman’s “Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd.” Hall then segues into bilingual poems about absence, be it in the form of love for a stranger or a country no one has visited. “Summer” describes an intimate encounter in the hottest of seasons, while “Down River” traces the speaker’s nature walk as she reminisces about her lover: “Every day at dawn, / I recover in my arms / the original caresses when / our bodies rediscovered one another.” “Poem of Love” details how the whole world and even the stars seem to worship the speaker’s beloved. She considers the power the moon has over lovers in “You Stole the Moon From Me” and mourns the dual losses of a birch tree and a partner in “Farewell.” In “Anticipation,” she imagines a future life, full of family, food, and laughter, with her love interest. “Love in the Time of Coronavirus” wonders about what humanity has learned, if anything, from the Covid-19 pandemic. The poet concludes with “That Man,” which evokes spiritual, if not blatantly biblical, imagery as it imagines a deity walking along the ocean’s shore, “deciphering the human enigma.” Hall has mastered brevity; as Whitman himself might say, her poems contain multitudes even when they span as few as seven lines. Her poems drip with desire in verses like “To voice your name, / my lips hunger, and / savor every syllable until I’ve said it.” Her descriptions of the physical world are vivid and entice the senses, as when she writes of a garden where “white flowers perfume the air, / hummingbirds nibble nectar” and recalls “the heart of a rose beating in / the palm of my hand.” Her translations are not only grammatically accurate, but also aptly convey deep emotions in both English and Spanish. If there is a flaw in this collection, it is that some of the poems could have been further fleshed out; the author often leaves readers wanting more.
A masterful volume of poems that captures the sensuality of love in two languages. (dedication, index)”
- Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Viviana Hall, is an Argentine born writer, journalist, and a NYS licensed clinical social worker. Her first book of poems, Miedos, was published in Buenos Aires in 1977. As a press correspondent, she moved to New York, where in 1982 a re-edition of Miedos and her book Poemas del Cielo y de la Tierra, were published.
As a journalist, she produced, wrote, and hosted for New York Broadcast TV various documentaries, variety, and public service programs. This work earned her numerous distinguished awards. Additionally, she wrote locally and abroad for several prestigious publications. As a clinical social worker, Ms. Hall collaborated during the last decades with New York State, developing programs to create opportunities for underprivileged youth.
Ms. Hall is passionate about life, which she says, it is all about love in its multiple manifestations.
(2021, paperback, 60 pages)
