The Book of Aloneness is a collection of poems that spans over thirty years and revolves around the theme of the 'Unrequited." The book deals with various intensive and adverse emotions and states of mind that express both restraint and excessiveness and at times, excessive restraint. The overarching, unifying idea that brings all these poems together is the quietly disturbing realization of intentional and unintentional loss.

Vasile Munteanu was born in Romania and moved to the United States as a teenager. He holds advanced degrees in both Literature and Philosophy form Oakland University in Michigan and State University of New York at Binghamton respectively. He teaches Literature and Philosophy at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. The Book Of Aloneness is his /rst poetry collection.