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So Many Things to Say examines the relationships among a group of young people in Austin, Texas in the early 1980s. In those days the Lone Star State¿s capital city hummed with creative energy. At the University of Texas, Michael Dell cobbled together computers in his dormitory room. An earnest young Paul Begala ran for student body president, losing a close race to a giant purple cartoon character called Hank the Hallucination. Stevie Ray Vau...

Brian Radkey is the Grundoon, a twenty something Austin lawyer who has never quite come to grips with the death of his little sister. Several years after her death, Radkey finds himself under pressure to betray his own ethical standards at work at the same time that he's falling in love with a beautiful but troubled young woman. As the grief he's held inside starts to seep to the surface, hearts break, shots are fired, and apparently impeccabl...

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Brian Radkey is the Grundoon, a twenty something Austin lawyer who has never quite come to grips with the death of his little sister. Several years after her death, Radkey finds himself under pressure to betray his own ethical standards at work at the same time that he's falling in love with a beautiful but troubled young woman. As the grief he's held inside starts to seep to the surface, hearts break, shots are fired, and apparently impeccabl...

Centerpiece of this collection is "The Turning Point, " a narrative poem about the battle for Guadalcanal in November of 1942. Fusing elements of Homeric and Norse saga with contemporary slang, it's McCandless's attempt to create a uniquely American epic out of one of World War II's most important campaigns. Also included: poems about baseball and businessmen, and an extended sonnet sequence about lost love, "A Beginner's Guide to Disappointme...