The Poets
is a novella in the form of a census. It is a cavalcade of poets real and imagined. Young poets take their first steps into print and find a voice which they attach to their name. They travel through their middle years-marrying, making babies, divorcing, winning prizes, losing face. And at last they age, burnishing their reputations and settling scores as they face their readers' scrutiny and their own mortality.
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"A stunning river of words."
-Sara Pirkle, author of
The Disappearing Act
"A collective biography of all the poets in our midst-the famous, the infamous, the obscure, and the quotidian. Sentence by sentence,
reveals the poetic in the prosaic, and the various ways that art reveals the human in both."
-Pedro Ponce, author of
The Devil and the Dairy Princess: Stories
"It's rare to find a genre-defying work that is by turns-and sometimes all at once-absurdly comedic, straight-faced satirical, psychologically insightful, and unexpectedly heartbreaking.
is such a work, and readers are bound to see-somewhere in its fun-house mirrors-their worlds, their neighbors, themselves."
-Joseph Fasano, author of
The Dark Heart of Every Living Thing