SELECTED POEMS of EDWARD LOOMIS

About the Book

Some of the free verse offered here  was first published in Poems of a Cockroach (1970):  this was a self-published pamphlet illustrated with drawings by Gerry Haggerty.  EVERYMAN  was made into a film with a rather dubious sound-track bringing  the thing down.  This book is a gathering of work  of the last  thirty years, and it is a selection, exactly.  That might be its strong point.  These poems are what I think of as my best stuff, and are offered as that.

About the Author

Edward Loomis, author of HEROIC SPAIN, has been engaged with Spanish and Spanish-American literature and culture during the last seven years, concentrating on Rubén Darío and Antonio Machado, and the poems collected here come out of that effort. The idea of this book is that these poets were leaders in the Hispanic civilization, and were accepted as such. Their work shows some of the strengths of that civilization, decadent as they found it which is successful now partly because of them, and their work lives on as privileged by their talent and dedication.