The Chimney Stone Alex Boyd Daniels's background as a journalist

Daniels's background as a journalist shows

Murray's poems reflect his growing maturity and his interest in approaching writing as a profession and a craft

–Bruce Kidd

experience and contexts too often trod upon by a well-intentioned but ultimately condescending verse-style that seems to assume workers can't handle any syntax more complex than that found in an elementary-school book

everyday moments

The Chimney Stone Alex Boyd Daniels's background as a journalistDescription In this eagerly anticipated follow up to his award winning, critically lauded debut, Rob Winger's sophomore collection, The Chimney Stone, bends the contemporary lyric into startling new shapes. Concentrating on a splendid mess of headlines, wars, politics, relationships and artistic influences, Winger's ghazals ask us how to negotiate the complex commitments and chaotic tumult of our dailylives. Making use of the ghazal's original address