Ethan Lewis, dubbed “Poet laureate of Hawthorne Place,” writes daily, stopped only perhaps by night time: “But then again, bed beckons: ‘It is time. / You satisfied exigencies of rhyme.’” Doesn’t he declare, “Pentameter helps pass the time”? Maybe it is a way for him to keep away, at least for a while, “our fate: to disappear”; and does he know how to cry for a departed friend: “Our loss. Your gentle soul and kindest life.” Ethan Lewis does not ignore what he owe...

In this book, poet Alain Saint-Saëns explains poetically why he decided to become a Paraguayan citizen. With poems and photos of his books' covers, he shows all stages from rebuttal at first to final acceptation at last by all Paraguayans. The poet sings friendship, love for his wife and his sons, and the country he elected as his to live and die in.

‘Como los franceses que lo antecedieron, Alain Saint-Saëns se ha convertido en paraguayo sin dejar de ser francés. Como ellos, ahora es un ...