The Chimney Stone Alex Boyd experience and contexts too often

experience and contexts too often trod upon by a well-intentioned but ultimately condescending verse-style that seems to assume workers can't handle any syntax more complex than that found in an elementary-school book

doesn't rely on status or income

or ponderates

The Summer Between succeeds as a low-key account of a boy testing his instincts and his upbringing in a natural but ever-more-complicated world

The Chimney Stone Alex Boyd experience and contexts too oftenDescription In this eagerly anticipated follow up to his award winning, critically lauded debut, Rob Winger's sophomore collection, The Chimney Stone, bends the contemporary lyric into startling new shapes. Concentrating on a splendid mess of headlines, wars, politics, relationships and artistic influences, Winger's ghazals ask us how to negotiate the complex commitments and chaotic tumult of our dailylives. Making use of the ghazal's original address