A Vagabond Heart

A VAGABOND HEART , a collection of love poems by Shabeeh Haider , is a fine gem that gleams with the facets of traditional rhyming poetry, the likes of which had reached a pinnacle in those halcyon years of Byron, Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth, romantic poets whose works still echo beautifully across times. Haider has embraced this romantic ideal and displays neither anachronism nor awkwardness with his fresh take on all the vagaries, magic and tragedies of love. The majority of his work in this fine volume favor iambic tetrameter and four-line stanzas, a tight streamlined form that demands crystal clarity and economy of language. And yes, Haider is more than up to the task. Introduction by Poet Michael H. Hansen.