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Informed by brothers both classical (Hypnos and Thanatos) and biblical (Cain and Abel), The Waxen Poor is at once a lamentation and a psalm of brotherly love. These are personal poems of psychosis and paranoia, of strangeness laced with beauty and grief, of lyrical mourning and narrative meditation. Poems in the collection have previously appeared in Best Creative Nonfiction, Blaze Vox, Cold Mountain Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Notre Dame R...

Poetry. In the tradition of Catullus's love poems and Berryman's Dream Songs, the poems of SAINT JOE'S PASSION recount the lonely lecherous life of Joseph Johnstone--cancer patient, classical music DJ, former voice-talent. The poems swing back and forth from Joe's hospital bed to moments of his past: a past of religion, little league baseball, music, and marital friction. The collection paints the portrait of a man who was never quite able to ...