Sudden In Youth: New and Selected Poems Historical Romance he staggers back to his

he staggers back to his old house

invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts

Among the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years

" --Kirkus Reviews on Cinder "First in the Lunar Chronicles series

The woman he had loved is a criminal

Sudden In Youth: New and Selected Poems Historical Romance he staggers back to hisOut of the mundane, a flash of lyrical. From the profane, a hint of sublime. And always, the inventive wordplay that cuts through the skin of language. Sucking up the marrow of his life, from crisis of faith to divorce, from fatherhood to being, yes, tattooed. Voices of killers and prostitutes. Poems at once intensely personal and universal about love, God and things that matter to the heart. Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems brings together the