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It's hard to be romantic in the twenty-first century. Personal encounters and thoughtful letters have given way to terse emails and unintelligible text messages. The divisiveness that pervades today's social conversation chills the romantic spirit and limits the special moments that inspire true romance. The sensibilities of lovers, young and old, have become increasingly cautious and cynical, diminishing romantic instincts and expectations of loving relationships. It's past time to return to traditional values. This book is a retrospective about true love found and lost in the sway of the love generation and explains why those experiences have meaning and value in the twenty-first century. It demonstrates how poetry can inspire hope and passion for those in search of romanticism. Its central message is that hope lies in the journey, whether one is navigating the chaos of the love generation or the artificial intelligence of the modern world.
About the author
The author was born and raised in northern New Mexico, where his family settled more than three hundred years ago. A poet in his youth, his early literary works inspired and chronicled his romantic experiences during the "love generation" in the late 1960s and 1970s, as contained in Conversations with Quijóte, also from Sunstone Press. A trial lawyer and executive manager for most of his adult life, his poetic skills brought energy and creativity to his legal and business writings. Now in retirement, his life experiences, realized dreams and expressive writing style bring meaning and character to his contemporary work, and to the poetry he authored more than fifty years ago. He is also the author of Love Ever After, Selected Sonnets, 1971-2024 from Sunstone Press.
