Famous Persons We Have Known

In this collection of 52 poem, Minnesota writer Richard Robbins introduces the famous persons promised in the title: Lon Chaney, Jr., buying eggs and bananas at a Capistrano Beach supermarket; Elvis "slipping out/with raccoons and owls to buy pink/Cadillacs for anyone that moved him; " Marshal Dillon, his head split by a surfing mishap; even Geronimo, galloping back toward nature, "ruined for love".But this book is about more than famous people. From the char and kokanee-choked waters of Montana to an art gallery in Utah where the narrator doesn't meet a famous poet laureate, Robbins connects past and present, the dead and the living. He does so with sly humor, a naturalist's precision, and a potent lyricism.Richard Robbins is the author of 'Famous Persons We Have Known', published 2000 under ISBN 9780910055659 and ISBN 0910055653.