In POIKILOPAIDIA (Greek for "a multicolored education"), the poet bares his heart, soul and mind through sixty years of life, love, learning, raging and laughing.

REVIEWS:

"[Gimpel] manages to evoke smiles, laughter, tears and more than a few chills . . . precisely what good poetry is supposed to do." - Chris Leppek, Intermountain Jewish News.

"He sent me his first book of poems, Twilight with Halfmoon Rising, and I exploded. A major Jewish poet in our midst. But major." - Herb Brin, Heritage Southwest Jewish Press.

"You have brought back to poetry the elements without which it cannot exist." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"I read slowly some of the briefer poems from the beginning, the middle, & the last part of the Poikilopaidia. I recognized/recalled some of them. Mostly sonnets. As in the past, I found your sonnets superbly crafted: impeccable metrics, rhymes, dense content! Bravissimo Peter! I must tell you that this seems to me an anthology of your poetry up to the present, [but] in my eyes a publication like that should be printed one poem per page. Your work, then, would appear most impressive, projected in its right worth!"

- Stamatis Philippides, Prof. Emeritus, University of Crete (Comparative Literature).

FROM AMAZON:

5 STARS:

"This is a beautiful collection, both retrospective and new, of the works of a writer admired by no less than Isaac Bashevis Singer. This is a book whose gorgeous cover does in fact 'tell the book.' A must for all students of poetry. - A. M. Forbes, December 17, 2022