Beautiful Rust: Poems (Working Lives Series)

Ken Meisel's got the beat in his hit parade of Motown poems. I love his long lines and smoky fires, the effect gravity has on the living and the dead. His Purgatorio includes Marvin Gaye, an echo of better times painted onto a billboard overlooking the freeway and Dubois Street. Meisel is interested in the music of �grassy fields and abandoned places...wild pheasants and drunks.� He is our modern Virgil talking us through the Rinaldo Arms Manor. Read him and be saved.

�Russell Thorburn, poet, author of Father, Tell Me I Have Not Aged, The Whole Tree as Told to the Backyard, and The Drunken Piano