<p><em>A Cast of Characters</em> is a compilation of poems based upon familiar literary characters. Written by a retired high school English teacher this chapbook summarizes analyzes and relates these characters to modern times. The characters memorialized range from The <em>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em> to the nursery rhyme Henny Penny from Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock to Wilder's <em>Our Town</em>.</p>