Quarter Blend Polly - Paperback

by Daniel Fitzpatrick (Author), J. C. Scharl (Foreword by)

In these poems, Fitzpatrick weaves story and song, narrative and image, free verse and traditional forms to spin a yarn of life and art. These are poems of place, first and last of the rich riverbend tableau of New Orleans, but also of Greece and Spain, of Tampa and Paris and Oxford. Along the way the speaker's voice meets those of dozens of artists, from Wangechi Mutu and Picasso to Dante and Homer. The result is a pageant as various and riotous as that of life in New Orleans itself, and the invitation throughout is that of grace.

Author Biography

Daniel Fitzpatrick is the author of two novels and two poetry collections, a verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, and Restoring the Lord's Day: How Reclaiming Sunday Can Revive Our Human Nature. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and four children, and he edits Joie de Vivre, a journal of art, culture, and letters for South Louisiana.