“We each of us brothers took up a fist full of nails and a hammer into each one of our hands and we walked out back to the back of our backyard, back to where there was a telephone pole back there studded with the chopped off heads of fish.”
—from The Singing Fish
Only Peter Markus can make this kind of beautiful music.
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Robert Lopez is the author of eight books, including Good People, A Better Class of People, The Best People, All Back Full, and Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere. He teaches at Stony Brook University and has previously taught at Columbia University, The New School, Pratt Institute, and Syracuse University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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