Exile

A downtown Baudelaire of the ‘90s: that’s what New York poet Mark West used to be. Now at thirty-one locked in a perpetual adolescence he’s slipping. Even when he takes an artist-in-residence position at a small Oregon college he finds himself still sleeping with strange women and seeking momentary oblivion in drugs. But when he returns to Manhattan with a new book idea and renewed energy an emotional train wreck awaits him and he discovers that he must take his first steps into his new life alone.