In this volume a young woman grows through and beyond eroticlove to reach the love known as agape.  ‘Poems of This Century’ is a bookthat rises from the human to explore the divine. Reflecting the joy of youthand the wisdom of age shaped by the pain of the human condition, this poetrytakes the reader on a journey of hope.  Thebook, in parts only too human and scattered with wry and humorous observations,is nevertheless an attempt to describe that intensified experience of themystical called by others, the cloud of unknowing, the heat of love, thelightness of being, ecstasy, the peak experience…