Cooking in Key West

The dozen poems in this chapbook range from childhood memories of neighbors, family and reading Joyce at age 12 to satirizing political correctness to paying homage to deceased poet, William Stafford. Ochester’s style is free and easy like good conversation. He is a story teller, a creator of believable characters like “Norman Silvertsen, Sr.,” a childhood neighbor, who calls eight-year-old Ochester a “stuck-up little snot,” or Aunt Barbara and her best friend, Minnie, who found out the amazing truth about seventy-year-old Barb that became part of the family narrative.