The Common Poems

About the Book

With titles such as "Killed by Indians on a Moonlit Night", "Butterfly doing Crazy Takes", and "An Old Man Painting in a Blue Van on Buckland Common", Paul F. Tortorella's poems straddle dreaminess and the precise reality of the present moment. These haunting and sometime humorous poems navigate the public and private realms of existence, the light and dark, the forgotten and the remembered, the lost and found, and lost again until the "time for cold rain". In a sublime yet straightforward style,
Tortorella gives voice to the poet inside us all.

About the Author

Paul Tortorella teaches Literature at Phillips Academy and lives in Royalson, Massachusetts.