Poetry. "SPRING AGAIN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Victor di Suvero reflects and extraordinary wisdom that captures life's complexity and juxtapositions without losing life's shivering, transcendent beauty. Its words resonate with the powerful knowledge that within all things finite dwell the infinite. SPRING AGAIN's collation captures Victor di Suvero's willingness to be a single stone, whose ripples dance into the waters of the world. SPRING AGAIN washes wounds, merges heart, action, and mind, and blazes for the reader a path of life where the spirit's core recognizes the amazing, synchronous nature of life and love"--Florence McGinn.
Author City: La Villita, NM USA
Victor di Suvero is an American poet, investment manager and entrepreneur. Born in 1927 in Turin, Italy, he grew up in China where his father had been stationed in the Italian Diplomatic Service. He came to San Francisco early in 1941 with his family as anti-fascist political refugees. He attended the University of Santa Clara and then, wanting to do something to help in the war effort and being too young for the armed forces, he shipped out as a Merchant Seaman at the age of 16 sailing as an able-bodied seaman in the Pacific. He saw service from Guadal canal to New Guinea and from Biah to Leyte. At the end of the War he returned to California and attended the University of California where he received his BA in Political Science in 1949. At Berkeley he had been the editor of the Occident, the literary magazine of the University and won the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Poetry in that year. While at the University of California in Berkeley, di Suvero developed a catering service to support himself which later evolved into a series of four restaurants which he sold before moving to Sausalito, California, where he bought and ran the "Contemporary Gallery" giving shows to artists such as Wayne Thieband and Jean Varda. The development of the gallery led to his establishment of Design and Color Service in 1951 providing art and design advisory services to architects and real estate developers such as Eichler homes and Conway and Culligan in the Bay Area. This exposure soon led him to obtain his own Real Estate License and established di Suvero & Company, a Real Estate and Mortgage brokerage firm which he managed with projects in Hawaii and Arizona as well as in California. The various financing contacts di Suvero had developed for his real estate business gave him the opportunity to extend his management and funding practice into a succession of mining ventures. He became a principal in Standard Coal Co., developing mines in Tennessee and West Virginia subsequently establishing