Recital

About the Book

Recital's easy-to-understand, bite-sized poems lend a fresh voice to life's daily joys and struggles. Whether it's a rainy Paris boulevard, Ireland's Connemara, or the windswept dunes of Long Island's Hamptons, from one page to the next Recital carries you away with depth and spirit.

The richly varied program features poems that span the full range of emotions and ask the questions often closest to our hearts

Where do all the years go? How can we feel alive right now? Why are happiness and despair so closely linked? How can we balance the material with the spiritual? What happens after we die?

They say if the same musician played the same program a thousand times, no two performances would be alike. The same holds true for Recital, the Poems of Richard M. McErlean, Jr. Read it once, read it once a day-it will always surprise you with something new. All you have to do is take your seat and enjoy.

About the Author

Rich McErlean is a writer, freelance editor and translator. Originally from Stony Brook, New York, he currently lives in Vevey, Switzerland with his wife Franziska and their two children Sarah and Richard, III. In addition to Recital, he has recently completed a novel entitled The Third Pillar. Recital is his first collection of poetry.