“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 five books of which the most recent are Good People and All Back Full. He's taught at the New School, Columbia University, Pratt Institute. Syracuse University, and the Solstice Low-Res MFA Program of Pine Manor College.
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