a poem is a mere cholla needle embedded deep through the skin when withdrawn the scar lengthens and the pain worsens time heals the pain the scar remains forever - r soos r soos is currently the editor of Cholla Needles BOOKS BY R SOOS In Bed And In The Bathtub (1970) Why Poetry (1974) My Homeland (1976) Bring Some Wine [translation] (1977) Reality Is A Drunken Feeling (1978) Patient Rains And Petals (1981) The Poetry Of Jesus (1982) A Foreign Landscape (1984) His Power (1988) Dried Blood (1990) The Son is Breaking Through (1992) Garden Songs (1995) Each Day (1997) California Breeze (1998) Moaning & Groaning (1999) Train of Love (2000) Guitars (2001) Fiddlin' Around (2003) Insecurities (2005) Bringing In The Sheets (2012) Parting Departing (2015) Selected Poems (2015) Somersaults With Life (2016) Cell Notebook (2016) Big Blue Book (2017) Interiors [with Zara Kand] (2017) Exteriors [with Zara Kand] (2017) Fifty Favorite Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (2018) During The Music (2018) The Third Horseman, poems by César Vallejo (2018) A Cloud Ever Near (2019) The Heart Locker [with Eva Montville] (2019) What Lies Below [with Peter Nash] (2020) Bring Some Wine, poems by Shoichi Taneda (2020) Selected Poems by Takuboku Ishikawa (2022) ANTHOLOGY (edited by r soos) Seven Stars Anthology (1973-1998) INSTRUMENTAL PIANO CDS BY R SOOS California Breeze (CD) Bringing In The Sheets (Soundtrack) All material is available on Amazon.com "r soos is an acute observer of the worlds he comes in contact with. He translates both his inner and outer world with equal grace and fluency. His poems soar into a soulful playground and swing across the page visiting subjects and returning, then off again a bit higher visiting a new thought. Later he is caught swinging back to a vivid recalling of a thought or incident worth reporting on. His "Selected Poems" is a powerful, intelligent selection from 50 years of work." - Antony Paulson, editor of Poetry Review