Why?

An award-winning author of 50 books, a three-time Fulbright Scholar, and a life-long human rights activist, Dr. James D. Cockcroft brings his readers "WHY? ¿POR QUÉ? POURQUOI?" - a bilingual English / Spanish collection of poetry. The author asks the age-old questions of love and grief, of nature and politics. Let James take you on his intellectual and emotional roller coaster ride from the hardheaded woman that takes no jive, to his understanding of "the wet joy of defiance". His ride will lift you from "autumn sun's casted rubies" to the Andes' "sky-wind" and "snowy temples," ending in the depths of the fight "with all and for the good of all" of political figures like "the Cuban 5". Blurb by Luke Rhinehart James Cockcroft writes to be read and re-read and savored. His language is simple and direct but this simplicity belies the moving complexity of what he expresses, which never fails to surprise and please. - Luke Rhinehart (Author of the internationally acclaimed novel THE DICE MAN) Blurb by Katharine Beeman What Cockcroft lives and depicts best is "Presente," that concept that understands the thin line between love and grief; where there is no death because the absent are present; where we are linked in mutual responsibility and struggle in the spiral of Pacha Mama and the Great Mystery. - Katharine Beeman (Direct and Devious Ways, The Muses' Company / La Compagnie des Muses) Blurb by R.D. Roy: Here we find tribute to love in all its forms. And as a bonus, we can rediscover how a good poem in English is somehow always a little sadder, triumphant, or sexier when it's said in Spanish. - R.D. Roy (Three Cities, A Pre-emptive Kindness, Hidden Brook Press)