Soliloquy

<p>Soliloquy is a lyric autobiography that details the misadventures life lessons and glory moments of an American poet. This tale is a mix of personal history and cultural iconography slipping from Soupy Sales to Edgar Allen Poe from Mary Poppins to UFOs and from comic book superheroes to underground poetry readings. </p><p>Battling a depression and anxiety endemic in our time author Kurt Cline is propelled down a corridor of memory and imagination having met some of the greatest poets of modern day. He hung out with the Sun Ra Arkestra for an entire evening in a snowed-in Howard Johnson hotel. He shook hands with Patti Smith at the stroke of New Year’s in the Bowery Ballroom of New York City. </p><p>This book is the story of a life lived through writing. In a poetic prose work reminiscent of Nabokov Samuel Beckett or Dylan Thomas Cline intertwines strands of vision emotion and culture to form a personality-structure that is ultimately able to transcend the limitations of its past and discover a new improved destiny.</p>