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Kent Soileau, a young man from a Cajun-speaking New Orleans family, lives an upside-down life as a professional job hopper and as an inmate of a nut house. Thanks to his friendship with the indomitable Mr. Raindrinker, Kent's life takes some amazing but good turns. Not since John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" have readers been taken on such a big and easy ride through one of America's greatest cities.

Ken Fontenot is one of the most original, moving poets in the world. I have treasured his work for years-his images startle us awake. His wisdom sears."-Naomi Shihab Nye, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and author of TRANSFER"In Fontenot's In a Kingdom of Birds, I find exactly the kind of poems for which I am most grateful: poems self-aware enough to recognize that in all things exist both tragedy and light, but poems not so beso...

Ken Fontenot's fourth book of poems continues the fine balance of "things both practical and sublime" that he developed with subtlety and flare in his previous book, In a Kingdom of Birds-poems that explore the personal as well as the grander themes of life, with music presiding. "The songs of my time insist we listen attentively. / Take Fleetwood Mac. They incite, almost all melody, / which is the pie's filling, the alcohol in a mixed / drink...

The story of Kent Soileau, who lives an upside-down life as a professional job-hopper and as an inmate of a nut house. He has assembled an impressive resume of diverse and comical experiences, from being a driver for Mississippi River-boat pilots, to a French Quarter bartender, to a genetics research associate. Kent is a true searcher, whether searching for food, a place to stay, happiness-or the meaning of life.