Poetry. Not so much recipes as proclamations, not descriptions but prescriptions, this collection of poems by Craig Czury is a compendium of the possibilities of and for poetry that exist in the real world. Using the idea of "write a poem" as an extensible metaphor for "live a life in which it is possible", this book may teach you all you need to know about finding poetry in the daily, and trickstering those around you into seeing it, as well.

Craig Czury has conducted poetry writing and poem fusion workshops in Russia, Lithuania, Argentina, Northern Ireland and throughout the U.S. for performance on stage and radio. His new website is Poet-in-Education. His latest books of poetry are PARALLEL RIVERTIME (bilingual Russian/English edition) Petropol Press, St. Petersburg, 1999, and UNRECONCILED FACES, FootHills Publishing, 1999. Co-editor of Red Pagoda Press Poetry Pamphlet Series. Czury lives in Reading, Pa. where he conducts his on-going Berks Poetry Project, creating multi-voice poem fusions with the African-American, Hispanic, Asian and Anglo communities and juvenile lock-up.