A sensitive portrayal of the lives of two poets, one who is successful, wins awards, teaches at a university, and is married with a child, and one who works on a single poem all his life and lives a quiet, minimal life. This is literary fiction, concerned with the characters relationships to poetry, each other, and their friends and family. It's well written, insightful, and probing.
It begins slowly, however. A BAM! POW! opening is not to be expected from a novel of this type, and things do pick up and become interesting as the novel progresses, but the opening is particularly bland - it could do with an interesting sentence or a unique situation to draw the reader in. I'm afraid many readers who pick the novel up and read the opening may put it down again and miss out on a good read.
