Soundtrack to Latchkey Boy by Curtis L. Crisler

“True to its title, Soundtrack to Latchkey Boy bristles with music: an album in verse of coming up hard and finding a path to light. Curtis Crisler is both poet and DJ, spinning a playlist of parental wisdom in the guise of the prose poem. These are survival songs. Tune in and be moved.”

–Mitchell L. H. Douglas, author of Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem

“Curtis Crisler‘s Soundtrack to Latchkey Boy is magic in the way it makes heartbreak music. With its halting syntax and precise, twisting diction, with its conjuring of these exact voices…. What I mean is that my heart is jumping around like a kangaroo on account of how beautiful this book. Like I said—heartbreaking, yes. But music, even more.”

–Ross Gay, author of Bringing the Shovel Down and Against Which

Read a profile at Alan King’s blog: http://wp.me/pC3Xj-KN (cut and paste URL)

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]