Pining from the Heat: (and other poems of relationship and intimacy)

In Pining from the Heat, Szwed has selected poems that he wrote about love, relationship, and intimacy. Biographical in many respects, this collection of poems wends its way through the years of his life, from the time the author left the U.S. Army after serving and being wounded in Viet Nam, until 2002. Through divorces, marriages, a variety of jobs, raising a daughter, in sickness and in health, walking the beach or smelling a flower, Szwed's poems, with brevity, humor, succinctness, or s...