The Poet's Curse: A Miscellany

A delightful miscellany of poems on a multitude of subjects in various forms and genres including: ancestral portraits bestiary commonplace complaints catalogs concrete dialog dreams ekphrastic erotica experimental found poems free verse light poems imagistic list poems lyrical military monolog narrative nostalgia object poems odes pentastichs persona poems philias phobias philosophies portraits prose poems romantic satire sonnets stream-of-consciousness triptychs work . . .The Poets Curse Everything the poet sees or hears thinks feels or imagines gets captured interpreted and shoe-horned into a damn poem whether they like it or not.____________________________________________________________________________Michael Estabrooks The Poets Curse is a must-read collection by a particularly perceptive observer of our often-cockeyed world. Wayne Hogan Poet &ArtistEstabrook is a master jeweler and each day each moment of his life is a small glittering stone waiting to be shaped into something iridescent and precious. John Sweet PoetI never tire of his humorous often self-deprecating yet poignant poetry. Glenn Cooper Poet & Collagist