Collected Poems

Abel is a voice for the dispossessed, for whom hope is a ship that went aground early, betrayed by an absent drunken whoring captain. In a sleeping world, he struggles, alone feeling, awake wondering if anyone else is awake. Even the lives of objects around him mirror the lives of humans; they decay, are abandoned, lost destroyed, or merely-brutally-forgotten. Anthony Russell White, Poet, San Francisco This is strong direct poetry, that doesn't hide its rich emotion behind self conscious art, but offers it straight from its own beauty. James Carse Ph. D., New York University They are highly evocative portraits of moments in time...finely drawn... I would recommend this book to anyone. Lucy Harrison, Award WinnerWorlds Best On-line Fiction 1996 Sensitive... Nostalgic. We have all lived in the beauty, love and tragedies of theses poems. J. C. Sagibiel, Poet, Cotingnac, France In UNDER BURIED WINDOWS Robert B. Abel creates a stark, compelling picture of Mans isolation, struggling to protect his personal dominions of ephemeral beauty from annihilation by a world detached from feeling. Terry Garrity, Author, The Sensuous Woman COLLECTED POEMS takes you through forty-five years of one mans visions; his travels reach the heights and depths of human emotions; Love, Laughter, Despair and the fragile Hope, in us all, that rises like a sick bird over TEABO PARKMilan Yesenin, Poet, Prague