Would-Be Poems

Will the real Jack Strange please stand up In Would-Be Poems, poetic master of disguise Jack Strange claims to step into the shoes of a fictional unnamed "would-be poet" in order to discover what it's like to be ordinary. But the fictional would-be poet also tries on myriad masks and voices as he navigates the psychosocial stages of his imaginary life. The result is an extraordinary assortment of "would-be poems" which ultimately reveal not the mind of Jack Strange or the would-be poet but the minds of the characters they play. So who is Jack Strange? In Would-Be Poems, he's you and me and the society in which we live, love, work and die. FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION