The Kingdom of Gewgaw Author:Louis Daniel Brodsky This volume's forty-three chronologically arranged poems, from January to June 1975, throw us into the abandoned landscape of the poet's psyche. Leaving his wife and child behind, he becomes angry Ahab, drowning in an ocean of cow-filled solitude as he tacks along the highway's cement sea lanes in quest of le... more »viathans, his eyes blurred by salty tears, lamenting that only his poems have survived his transformation.« less