A compilation of 50 poems about life, love, romance and the pursuit of happiness. Originally written in English and translated to Spanish.
Gil Saenz was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He recently retired from the Internal Revenue Service in 2004 where he had been employed as an Information Technology specialist at the IRS Detroit Computing Center.
In the early part of his life attended grade school at Holy Trinity and Douglas Houghton elementary schools which were both located in Corktown, a section of downtown Detroit located on the near West side of town. Later, he attended and graduated in 1959 from Western High School also on the southwest side of Detroit.
He then served a four year term in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed mainly at Minot Air Force base in North Dakota. He worked as a Personnel Specialist and did a four month temporary duty tour in 1963 at the Ramstein Air Base, near Frankfurt, Germany.
In 1968 Gil graduated from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan with a B.A. and English Literature major. Afterwards, he was employed with U.S. State Department in the Foreign Service as a U.S. Diplomatic courier from 4-69 to 10-70.
Writing poetry and writing in general have become one of his favorite pastimes and interests.
