Love's Mirages: Searching in a forbidding land

The author is a sensitive man who has always had two equally strong feelings for women: loving and sexual. These poems describe his struggle for love with personal meaning in a rapidly changing world.

His journey begins in childhood, with romantic fantasies and parental taboos within a fairly rigid moral climate, offering prized security but causing problems in accommodating clamouring sexuality.

Then comes the 60s "revolution" with its legacy enduring to the present, bringing the opposite pu...