Borrowed Tales (Paperback)
Poetry. In BORROWED TALES,personae congregate to live out their lives: Hamlet and Ophelia join the McGuffey Reader's droll schoolchildren to stand beside Junius,a deaf-mute black man from the early s. When they entwine with Vince,a truculent middleschooler in south L.A,and Elaine,a returned Peace Corps Volunteer weighing in from Azerbaijan,their pasts seed a tangible present. Their lives,intractably immersed in history,release chance possibilties buried in every tale. Poems burst forth like enta