<p><strong>Ken Fontenot'</strong>s <strong><em>The Forests of Autumn</em></strong> celebrates a life lived in poetry. Exploring his Cajun heritage his struggles with existential angst as well as his love of classical music philosophy the German language and other writers Fontenot's poems are not so much a creation as a discovery. A true original who likes to be me often rather than sometimes Fontenot empoem(s) us with tenderness wit and the mystery of the everyday. </p><p>-Grace Bauer author of <em>Unholy Heart: New &amp; Selected Poems</em></p>