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Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago
Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago Author:James Conrad The Yucca Mountain Project deep in the Nevada desert is the first planned long-term nuclear storage facility, designed to contain nuclear waste for ten thousand years. Given this daunting responsibility, the project employs an artist, a botanist, and an architect to contribute visual warnings to the site, in a manner decipherable to future gene... more »rations. An influential poetry professor insists that the project include a poem - a great, epic poem. An extended circle of minor poets becomes involved with the epic, continually upstaging, back-stabbing, and falling in and out of love with one another. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Chicago, this is a story of science and poetry, manipulation and intrigue, and the lengths people will go for their passions.« less