In Mozart's Pigtail, Townley offers an evocative series of poem-portraits of musicians, writers, and intimate friends.
Townley honors these meaningful connections in his life, and readers experience how these subjects can ignite a poet's creative power.
There is a delicacy that finds meaning in the small things that happen to great beings, in the great things that rise within our familiar friendships--or are they always somehow strange, as his poems discern.
Townley's sure grasp of th.