How Chet Baker Died

Poems from the acclaimed author of Roy’s World , Wild at Heart , and many other works   The first words in Barry Gifford’s new poetry collection say it all—“Here I am wasting time again / writing poems to keep myself company” — doing what he has ever done, surprising his readers in kaleidoscopic prisms of color, turning every breath into a story, and himself into his most colorful character.   She stood and walked across the lawn past the cottage and into the big house. He stayed to wa