As Mary Ruefle has said, “The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.” Some of the poems in this book foretell, some protect; some condemn, some praise. Always they spring from this central belief: there is something mysterious about the power of the word.

Anyone who has ever woken at 3 a.m. unable to turn off the brain knows the value of that precious elixir we call sleep.  Dear Morpheus, The Glue That Is You explores the realms of sleep, sleeplessness, and dreams. Many of the poems address Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams, for relief.

Hotel Montparnasse: Letters to César Vallejo is a verse-novel composed in letters written to the famous Peruvian poet César Vallejo, who died in Paris in 1938.  He was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery, but soon after, according to these letters, found himself residing at the nearby Hotel Montparnasse, perhaps against his will.  This book tells of his friendships, involvement with a resident named Jeanette, problems with the hotel management, and his eventual disappearance (or is it escape?) from the hotel.

Poems in Agitprop surround the events of the Trump years in American policy and politics. Each title recognizes a catch-phrase twisted to secure an agitational propogandic effect. The success of that effect is a lyric.

John Bradley’s Erotica Atomica is a theater of the absurd, and the the worst weapons of the twentieth century examined in painstaking, mad detail, becoming surreal objects of our own folly.

A collection of prose poems that might be described as Franz Kafka and Frida Kahlo going out for a date at Coney Island. The book reflects what happens when you drop an American history textbook, an issue of People, and a short history of dreams into a blender.