A delightful miscellany of poems on a multitude of subjects in various forms and genres including: ancestral portraits, bestiary, commonplace, complaints, catalogs, concrete, dialog, dreams, ekphrastic, erotica, experimental, found poems, free verse, light poems, imagistic, list poems, lyrical, military, monolog, narrative, nostalgia, object poems, odes, pentastichs, persona poems, philias, phobias, philosophies, portraits, prose poems, romantic, satire, sonnets, stream-of-consciousness, triptychs, work . . . "The Poet's Curse" Everything the poet sees or hears, thinks, feels or imagines gets captured, interpreted and shoe-horned into a damn poem whether they like it or not. ____________________________________________________________________________ "Michael Estabrook's The Poet's Curse is a must-read collection by a particularly perceptive observer of our often-cockeyed world." ~ Wayne Hogan, Poet &Artist "Estabrook is a master jeweler, and each day, each moment, of his life is a small, glittering stone waiting to be shaped into something iridescent and precious. ~ John Sweet, Poet "I never tire of his humorous, often self-deprecating, yet poignant poetry." ~ Glenn Cooper, Poet & Collagist