Robert Scotto

Imagined Secrets: New Poems Robert Scotto

Poetry. The volume is a condensed, chiseled little box of miraculously moving poems, more American in essence, in spite of their travel content. Like a Sufi, his writing is an excursion into the world of dualities and the myriad colours of the sky, the earth and the world we live in. It is a delight to see in this slim volume the vital vistas of the earth conjured in his ennobling images to cherish, preserve and celebrate the imagined secrets of our formidable voyages.--Yuyutsu Sharma There is so much wisdom in Robert Scotto's new collection of poems, IMAGINED SECRETS: NEW POEMS. Consider this, from 'Wisdom': '... The advice / Of the old is like the winter's sun: / It brings some light, but little warmth.' 'Wisdom' notwithstanding, there is also warmth. In 'Serenade in Argentina, ' Scotto writes to a life partner, 'I miss you even when you are near / because you are never near enough.' Like the Van Gogh of his 'VG, ' Scotto suffers 'to perfection' in these poems, with 'vibrant ecstatic pain.' And it's with vibrant ecstatic pain that the poet experiences the impermanence of his time here on earth, a sense that the reader experiences working through this slim but densely packed volume.--Tim Tomlinson