Borrowed Tales

by Deborah Woodard

Poetry. In BORROWED TALES, personae congregate to live out their lives: Hamlet and Ophelia join the McGuffey Reader's droll schoolchildren to stand beside Junius, a deaf-mute black man from the early 1900s. When they entwine with Vince, a truculent middleschooler in south L.A, and Elaine, a returned Peace Corps Volunteer weighing in from Azerbaijan, their pasts seed a tangible present. Their lives, intractably immersed in history, release chance possibilties...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984028536
• ISBN13: 9780984028535
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Stockport Flats
• Length: 104 Pages