Mulroney & others

"Baron Wormser, a master of the persona poem, is well known for his empathic exploration of possible lives. His fifth collection of poetry, Mulroney & Others, includes an examination of his own life as well. His newest lyric narratives provide glimpses of his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, as well as accounts of Vietnam vets and draft dodgers, socialites and outcasts. His poems tempt us to trade the obscurity of facile assumption for the powerful illumination of wonder. In Wormser's words, the universe is irrefutably personal."--BOOK JACKET.