Publisher's Synopsis
"With historical reach that takes in the brutality of seventeenth-century colonialism, the poet's mother's closeted love in the mid-twentieth century, and the devastating consequences of history in contemporary Venice, with characters from a renaissance composer to John Waters, in Drury's poems the imagination is our most essential way of facing facts. They defeat the easiness of nostalgia by insisting on the complexity of circumstances, as if the baroque and the realistic were quite happily sharing a beer after work."-Jordan Smith, author of Little Black Train"--.
