Capriccios

About the Book

As indicated by my subtitle, this book is an adventure in the subjects commonly studied in the humanities or the liberal arts curriculum that I pursued at the University of Chicago. Each capriccio can be enjoyed, on the one hand, as fun and, on the other hand, to explore the range and breadth of a traditional liberal arts education. The book also can be didactic and can teach and expand a thoughtful person’s vocabulary.

About the Author

Pamela Martin is the pseudonym I chose to write under as my first audience and best fan was my foster father, Robert A. Martin. He encouraged me to start writing again after I started and stopped writing light verse in the sixth grade. I never wrote verse again until the age of forty-two. It took me five years to write what would become Capriccios. I set out to write more poems than Emily Dickinson, which I read was over 1,600 poems. I did not stop writing until I wrote over two thousand poems that I self-published in nineteen books from 2003 to 2009. I wrote on as many different subjects as I could think of. In this respect, I outwrote Emily. Capriccios and More Capriccios were compiled from these works, FYI.