A Man Made of Stories

Some stories are our own, some are heard from others, and some are stories we imagine. The poems in A Man Made of Stories embrace them all. Whether traveling by train through the Ozarks, walking under the orange trees and bougainvillea of Las Dueñas in Seville, or listening to Pavarotti in a laundromat on the Upper West Side in New York City, they take the reader on journeys through experiences that shape both the literal self-born on one date, dead on another-and the imagined self tha