Piero Rivolta

One Life, Many Lives / Una Vita, Molte Vita Piero Rivolta Bilingual edition

This book of poems and prose reflections looks to the past while offering keen observations and insights into our current state of affairs. Wistful musings, triggered by a visit to the author's childhood home in Milan, Italy, about watershed occurrences like September 11 and observations of his natural surroundings, alternate with lyric poems that celebrate love art, music and other momentary pleasures. A pensive sense that time is slipping away pervades - people inevitably hurried along by historical events and the bustle of everyday life - but there is also a deep appreciation for what is best in humanity along with gentle reminders of the eternal truths that govern our earthly existence.