Charles Banks Jr.

Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic Charles Banks Jr.

"Classic poetic forms combined with the modern confessional of free verse, these poems inhabit succinctly woven rhymes, verses and stanzas while professing the profoundest faith in romantic love--entanglement, desire, erotic sharing and compulsion. This is a "hopeless confession" filled with the irony of hope in love. Soft, gentle, fearless and shameless admonitions of losing oneself in the other are no threat. The delusion and sacrifice towards the profession of love remain an insignificant pleasure. The confessions here return to Neruda's erotic--loss of self parallels and postulates entirety. Love resonates as the opposite of self gratification and self preservation. There are no boundaries. A poet speaks in tandem with the ancient scribes of Egyptian Love Poems--sharing an exotic papyrus of altruistic love." *As written by Poet Sonia Di Placido.