Persons of Interest

by Steven Ostrowski

Steven Ostrowski's speaker in Persons of Interest is unabashedly nostalgic, but these mournful, searing, and celebratory poems, while aiming for the heart, rise above sentimentality. The artists he admired growing up shook his world, challenged him, changed him, and ignited his own desire toward artistry. Bob Dylan's lyrics blew his mind--"Wait, you can even say that?" he asks incredulously, and in the opening poem, "Skeleton Blood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1950066126
• ISBN13: 9781950066124
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 44 Pages