Description: Alive with the wisdom, artistry, and emotion of more than 250 poets from nearly one hundred countries, this anthology celebrates the multifaceted experience of contemporary manhood. The lives into which these poems invite us reveal the influences of culture, heredity, personal experience, values, beliefs, wishes, desires, loves, and betrayals.
Brief description: AL ZOLYNAS is a professor of English at Alliant International University in San Diego. He is coeditor, with Fred Moramarco, of Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (Georgia).
Review Quotes:
A fascinating anthology. The coeditors have done a commendable job of harvesting work from many different cultures and languages. It is also impressive how many little-known or unknown poets and poems from around the world the authors have managed to root out and include.
--C. K. Williams "author of The Singing: Poems"