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One of the many delights of reading Richard Katrovas's poetry memoir--or as he calls it his 'spectacularly weird life story'--is to see his mind at work, turning an image or an idea or metaphor over and over like a wild dog at a bone--chewing on it, spitting it out, but always with great energy and real hunger for the truth. It is not only the result I value, though many of his takes are brilliantly original-- but the poetic process itself rendered in valiant prose so even a poet-hater might get it. He is a poet through and through, so much so he has called himself an ex-poet, which only a real poet would do. His love is fiercer than his hate, and his unlikely account of becoming and remaining a poet is entirely likable. --Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India

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Richard Katrovas is the founding director of the Prague Summer Program for Writers and the author of seventeen books of prose and verse. He taught for twenty years at the University of New Orleans and is currently a professor of English at Western Michigan University.

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