A sequence of prose poems about the ravages of love, how we desire it, and whether we care to recover.

David Lazar's books include essays, prose poetry, nonfiction anthologies, and interview collections. He has lectured widely on nonfiction and editing, founded the Ph.D. program in nonfiction writing at Ohio University, and directed the creation of the MFA program in nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago where he teaches. Lazar is the founding editor of Hotel Amerika, now in its fourteenth year.

At a Diner Near Thebes
Anna Perenna
The Stranger on K Street
On a Train from Ithaka to Chicago
I Found it at the Movies
Down South
Deal
Late Stop
Harpy
Calypso
Andromache
In Troy it Rains on Main Street
Fortuna
Cleveland
In Dreams Begin Elsa
My Saranyu
Crossing the River
Pieces of a Dream
Certain Nights
March
Mnemosyne
Swim
Haemon's Song
To Let You Know
Hard Nox
Lyssa
Oracle
As the Fates Would Have it
Wichita
The Last Time I Saw Paris
No Vertigo
Big Trouble
Something Has Happened to the Night
One/Other
Why Things Happen
Peregrine
Aletheia
Narcissus
Melisande
Ricochet Avec Soleil
The Code
See Patroclus
Les Oiseaux de Paris
In Place
Who's Afraid of Helen of Troy
Killing a Rock with a Spider
Questions for the Sphinx
Five Unscrambled Anagrams
Let's Go to Troy