Thirty-nine Poems is Eugene's second book of poetry after Venice and Other Poems, which he published in 2011. Unlike the poems in that collection though, it contains mostly poems written in more recent years. As in that collection, the poems are in simple alphabetical rather than chronological order. Like the poems in that collection, each poem expresses a state of mind or emotion, an observation of a scene or a reflection on some experience. So these poems too are autobiographical, without necessarily being an exact mirror of the author's own life. And he still hopes that, as with the poems in his first collection, at least in some of them readers may catch glimpses of their own lives, past or present...