Waterfront Reveries: Poems by William Cipriano

What you’re holding in your hands is testament to a lifetime of witty, wry, poignant, and gripping insights on topics that demand honesty, courage, humor, and resolve. Aging. Honor. Dying. Love. Fatherhood. Poetry. Cipriano is as at home penning an Italian sonnet as he is free verse. His is an original voice, comfortable testing the limits of irony as much as sentiment. This is a man who lived deeply, loved truly, felt keenly, and delivers with the touch of a poet . . . being one moment, Don Quixote; the next, Hector. He is unmistakably one of a kind.

William Cipriano wrote poetry for decades while actively pursuing and excelling in other roles: as a tenor, a theater director, a teacher, a therapist, a husband, a father, a friend. His poems, now anthologized, reveal wit and wisdom and a talent for connecting with others as he explores personal and universal truths.