First published 2019
The elderly poet sits in his study, surrounded by decades of his own verses, wondering if any of it mattered. His body fails him daily now, his hands shake when he tries to write, and the literary world has moved on without him. When a young academic arrives to interview him about his career, he must decide whether to reveal the truth about his compromises and disappointments or maintain the facade of a successful literary life. His wife watches from the kitchen, knowing better than anyone the cost of his devotion to words that fewer and fewer people read. As winter settles over their small house, the poet faces his final reckoning with the art that defined him and the relationships he sacrificed for it.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, adult-fiction, poetry, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Paperback · Shoestring Press