King's Road to Pleasant Street (And Other Poems to Nowhere)

In his second volume of poetry Jace Paul takes a retrospective look at the works of his early years. Roughly divided into two eras the King's Road years of his childhood and the time spent in a Pleasant Street apartment during college the poems are deeply confessional and richly textured with strong and often conflicting emotions. From the award-winning Breakfast and The Serpent to poignant set-pieces like Bill and L'Americain Paul consistently employs colorful straightforward language to capture his subjects and experiences. Though poetry has lost much of its appeal and value in the twenty-first century Paul charges it with new energy by making it more about stories than images more compassionate than abstract.