Synopsis "Cream Fifteen: Poems and Stories 1989-2003"
This is an anthology of favored pieces from seven books and one chapbook spread out from 1989 to 2003. Mostly poetry, with some tiny stories, they cover the ground of ending small-press journal submissions after a decade and doing my own books. Travels between St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, in Minnesota, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Northwestern Wisconsin make up the exterior map, and a marriage, divorce, other live-in relationships, lots of strange jobs and the freedom of finally getting it right out in the country make up the interior map. Quite an ego stroke, being able to pick your high points and assemble them between the covers of one book, so stroke it, I did. I don't believe I've ever written a better batch of poems than these, and if you are a post-modern poetry fan, like the un-rhymed universe and your poetry close to the blood and bone (funny one included), this is the one for you.
