The Old Masters erects poetic monuments to such great American male writers as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Bukowski and at the same time knocks those grave stones askew with the insertion of poems about Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and -- most surprisingly -- Joan Vollmer, William Burroughs' wife and (accidental?) victim. Jeffrey Graessley's poems poignantly articulate the postmodern son's wish to emulate and embody the best...
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