Way Stations

About the Book

This book consists of 122 short, frequently epigrammatic poems, the majority of which take the form of a direct address to God. In the tradition of the Bible, Western mystics and recent poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, God (Christ) is viewed as an intimate friend, lover, guide and redeemer, sometimes intensely present, sometimes exasperatingly absent, the relationship with Him eliciting a range of emotions: delight, awe, anger, puzzlement and tongue-in-cheek humor. The book is the chronicle of a personal bond and the individual poems are somewhat like pieces in a mosaic.

About the Author

Tom Savignano was born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, where he attended Fordham Prep and Fordham University. He had a classical Jesuit education including much exposure to the liberal arts and to Latin literature. After majoring in biology he attended the Yale School of Medicine and earned his medical degree in 1963. In the late 1960’s he was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Subsequently he worked as a hospital pathologist in Northern California for twenty-six years. Now retired, he enjoys traveling, reading, writing and concerts. As a volunteer he teaches reading to adults, and he is an active member of his local parish.