This collection of poetry by the author of the novel Maledetti (The Forsaken) is clear and forthright. It is an invaluable help in many ways to those who will find in it the essence of our being - that high being which from the beginning is our destiny. In offering assistance to those souls who wish to rise upon the promised land, Michael Gualtieri follows in the footsteps of such poets as the Psalmists, Dante and Blake.

About Michael Gualtieri

Michael Gualtieri is an Italian-born proud Canadian. He grew up playing baseball and finds soccer incomprehensible - a serious fault in an Italian. He is temperamental and volatile - a serious fault in a Canadian.

He confesses that nothing about his externalities is more than a random collection of events foisted upon him in his helplessness. He lives in a remote part of the Canadian Shield without television or a daily paper.

He has been cavalier enough to try his hand at many things including pioneering on a 500- acre homestead. This entailed endless physical work and risks - should you ever count the bugs of summer you will feel the risk.

None of these activities matter to him. "They are really just a noise," he complains. Only for his poetry does he stand, which he categorizes as "a few sparks in this all-too-long night".

Michael Gualtieri reiterates the sentiment of Francesco Petrarch, who states that, "You will find on that road small company, gentle spirit/therefore I pray and ask/do not desert your magnanimous task."

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