King’s Road to Pleasant Street (And Other Poems to Nowhere)

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In his second volume of poetry, Jace Paul takes a retrospective look at the works of his early years. Roughly divided into two eras, the King’s Road years of his childhood and the time spent in a Pleasant Street apartment during college, the poems are deeply confessional and richly textured with strong and often conflicting emotions. From the award-winning Breakfast and The Serpent, to poignant set-pieces like Bill and L'Americain, Paul consistently employs colorful, straightforward language to capture his subjects and experiences. Though poetry has lost much of its appeal and value in the twenty-first century, Paul charges it with new energy by making it more about stories than images, more compassionate than abstract.