Len Schweitzer: 2 books

With a style somewhere between a hipster and a Japanese landscape painter, poet Len Schweitzer has mastered the poetics of image. In this, his first full-length book of poems, he presents us with such exotic pictures as a “fedora glazed with paris rain” and a “dead man’s skull rattling with...

Paul Czarda drinks whiskey in order to write, and write he must. Driven by his imagination, he has left the world of others. Then the world comes knocking. A teenaged girl delivers his newspaper and offers him her body. Drunkenly, he begins a degrading affair. He is an apostate Mormon, ousted by Church...