The Silent Partner

The Silent Partner

Sunday Skaters

Sunday Skaters

A third collection of poems highlights tones of playfulness, wisdom, compassion, and profundity while following a woman’s deeply personal journeys through love, family, place, and time.


Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life

Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life

A biography of the poet discusses his friendships with other aspiring writers, painters, and musicians, his repressive family life, his need for affection and fear of the encroachment on his […]


Unfinished Painting

Unfinished Painting

A sidewalk painter who refuses to hurry his rendition of the Birth of Venus though it threatens to rain, the late-night crying of a daughter, the unexplained suicide of a […]


Henry Purcell in Japan

Henry Purcell in Japan