Love Among the Yearlings represents over thirty years of Vic Ramirez's poems composed in the US, Great Britain and Scotland, Algeria, Nigeria, Japan, and Spain. The gist of the collection is straightforward: love's many seasons and faces. Our language has but this one word to express a range of emotions that shift, lack wholeness, ring as eternally as the breathing of the cosmos, are ineffable yet can be suggested in one breath, or a leaf. Through this work's many voices, love reveals itself to be a struggle, for love inhabits the same terrain as all human passion, especially fear, rage,...