Star City

the long version

"John Gallas's new collection is two books in one. The Coalville Divan makes miniature movies from the wisdom of the Persian sages. Each of the hundred sonnets returns a proverb to the particular lives, moments and places that made it. These little narratives put Life back up there with its Meaning." "Excellent Men, the second book, takes a different route to Star City. Fellini is followed by the Unknown Soldier, Alfred Schnittke can almost touch the muezzin who was a tape recorder, and William Bees VC is three steps away from a Mongolian marmot-killer. Here are the lit-up males of a writer's heart, claimed by admiration, kinship, amazement, love, poetry and a good laugh."--Jacket.