An imaginative, inspiring, and daring cross-border collection of poems and song lyrics by fictional poets and songwriters in the novels and short stories of Lior Samson. Best known as the author of contemporary thrillers, Samson argues that poems and poetry-whether spoken, written, or sung-are part of ordinary, everyday life, and honest fiction recognizes this reality. Here are poems of love and longing, or hope and despair, and songs of sadness and protest, including Parallel Lines, a rap-metal anthem for our divided and divisive times.