Songs of Love & Longing

This is a beautiful collection of poems about the ways and places that love appears. They are written by Ray Cicetti with both wisdom and insight. The poems in this book take the reader on a journey of their own, and are to be savored like a morning cup of espresso. Their essence can be realized beyond the words, like love is. Ultimately, the reader ends up where they started, in the present moment. These poems help me to be better able to see and live life with more open hearted. -Carl BachmannIn his second volume of published poetry, Songs of Love & Longing, Ray Cicetti delivers lyrics that are immense in their knowledge: of love and loss, of rock and roll, of splendid birds that fill the skies over New Jersey. A psychotherapist and longtime Zen teacher, Cicetti understands how family can persist in memory both as bedrock and heartbreak. This is a brilliant performance.--Daniel Born