Scott Vanya: 21 books

There was a period before my divorce (one and only) I was an avid reader of Pablo Neruda. And Love Sonnets appealed to me a great deal, so much so that my wife and I used one his sonnets at our wedding. So for many years she and I had a wonderful marriage and I wrote many a love poem. This...

Because Sometimes Magic Comes in the Simplest of Things-A Little Bit of Anti-Logical Thinking in a Prose Poem Collection I have included in this work: all those prose poems I have written since 1986 and a few other things, that fall outside the realms of either prose or poetry, hence the second...

In these my middle years, and after having given up so much, wife, full custody of my children, jobs, etc. etc, I have come to fully understand that Life really is about giving up. Not in the sense of failure nor despair but in the sense of letting go and giving away and trusting Chance or whatever...

I have been working, feeling, seeing in recent months the infinitesimal boundary between ourself and the sublime. And like Xeno's paradox, the oh-so-thin veneer DOES disappear. And then and only then do true poems come out. All the writing I have ever done, is just a means of wearing away that...

How does one go about regretting nothing? From one perspective - Not Possible!, yet from another isn't it true it just takes pure strength of will? Regret's Demise is the period in my life, when I, by posing it as that question, decided to Kill Regret. The poems included in it, are the...

The work I was doing exploring Emptiness, as the holiness that projects out through us into this space The Earth, produced many, many poems of a similar nature: The OSMOSIS Poems. The collected books, in four parts, spans, that period and encompasses large portions of 2012 and 2013. No attempt is...

How do you explain to the old writer or man or woman, that when he was a young man or woman he was just as good a writer or person that he or she is now. What he (generically) was timeless and beautiful and grand and bold, etc. etc., yet it was most appropriate to the audience of that age group as...