Cautionary Tales and Sundry Ballads

Description:

Highly ambitious, epic poetry written in a style evocative of Robert Lowell as an angst--riddled washer and dryer repairman in mid-1950's New Jersey, from the perspective of said Lowell as told to his dog, Sparky.

subjects: cheese,  Roman Empire,  psychology

People: Theodore Roosevelt,  Julian of Norwich,  Tintin

Places: London,  Atlantis,  Omaha

Times: 1984,  The Middle Ages,  1810-1890