The creative impulse comes. How do you know that it has to be a poem? What if it's a piece of sculpture? or a novel? You are the instrument of the language. How do you know that the meaning of the impulse can't be accomplished by going in and doing the dishes? PIECES is not a collection of poems, not a collection of stories, but PIECES of the craft in fiction, poetry, essay, and workshop.
Novelist, poet. Author of-- Valley Boy, Second Edition No Century for Apologies: Short listed for the Hoffer Grand Prize 2023 Citadel, the novel Blood The California Quartet: The Deification--Book One Valley Boy--Book Two (first Edition) The Book of Changes--Book Three Trio of Lost Souls--Book Four Gabriela and The Widow (Winner "Best Women's Fiction" Orangeberry Virtual Book Expo; Montaigne Medal Finalist; Book of the Year Award Finalist) co-author of The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery (with Robert J. Ray) Satori-poems by Jack Remick Doubles in a Game of Chance--a novel about a bureaucratic nightmare and a lost protagonist on a thankless quest. Man Alone--The Dark Book Songs of Sadness Joy and Despair for the Anthropocene--a pen in one hand, a razor in the other (Long poems and Josie Delgado)