The Poets

<p><em>The Poets</em> is a novella in the form of a census. It is a cavalcade of poets real and imagined. Young poets take their first steps into print and find a voice which they attach to their name. They travel through their middle years-marrying making babies divorcing winning prizes losing face. And at last they age burnishing their reputations and settling scores as they face their readers' scrutiny and their own mortality. </p><p> </p><p>///</p><p> </p><p>A stunning river of words.</p><p>-Sara Pirkle author of <em>The Disappearing Act</em></p><p> </p><p>A collective biography of all the poets in our midst-the famous the infamous the obscure and the quotidian. Sentence by sentence <em>The Poets</em> reveals the poetic in the prosaic and the various ways that art reveals the human in both. </p><p>-Pedro Ponce author of <em>The Devil and the Dairy Princess: Stories</em></p><p> </p><p>It's rare to find a genre-defying work that is by turns-and sometimes all at once-absurdly comedic straight-faced satirical psychologically insightful and unexpectedly heartbreaking. <em>The Poets</em> is such a work and readers are bound to see-somewhere in its fun-house mirrors-their worlds their neighbors themselves.</p><p>-Joseph Fasano author of <em>The Dark Heart of Every Living Thing</em></p>