Leonard Kress is assistant professor of communications at Owens Community College. His previous publications include Sappho's Apples, The Centrali Mine Fire, and Tryst: From the Life and Death of Chopin

"Imagine a postmodern Pindar with a liberal arts education and good command of Polish; think of an Orpheus who starts out as a horny kid from the American suburbs, hits the road like Kerouac, learns a few things along the way, but still looks back - wacked! Kress has come up with some playful and surprisingly haunting sonnets that glance at the old stories but sing their own new, not too sweet songs." - Julia Kasdorf