~Yusef Komunyakaa, Magic City (Wesleyan, 1992)

I really did love this book, and I feel really bad because Yusef just had a reading with Rodney Jones out in Pasadena that I forgot to tell my brother Josh Mossotti about.  It’s a damn shame too, because Rodney said it was a great time—said Yusef got him drinking bourbon.

            ~TM