The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse

by Barry Marks and Sam Taylor

At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth-and our plastic-choked ocean. Faced with the question of how to express the enormous ecological loss of our time, poet Sam Taylor marries this collective loss to a personal story of loss involving childhood, memory, and a mother's early death to cancer, a story which culminates in a scene the speaker is compelled to revisit, relive, and revise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942544773
• ISBN13: 9780942544770
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Negative Capability Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"