Detours

By Paul Vangelisti

Detours is a poet's memoir, serving as a record of Paul Vangelisti's witnessing of several West Coast scenes ebb and flow over several decades, like a river, like the ocean. At high tide, there are recollections of the commingling of many different scenes as they meet where poetry is circulating, and where Vangelisti is drawn in. At low tide, narrative conventions give way to verse that reveals poetry as a fact of Paul's life, true alongside other facts and details that situate friends, lovers, accomplices and the like. By the end, this memoir invites us all to join in to "face the music and dance."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ67K21Y
• ISBN13: 9798992695571
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Magra Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"