"Harry"
Harry, I've just completed my own 2 poetry books here at Lulu, and was browsing to see if I could find anyone else I knew. I remembered you telling us about your book but hadn't realized this was where it was. I just wanted to give my vote of confidence, and say that you are an excellent poet and story teller, and I'm certain you will do well with this project.
"Wow"
I am not a big poetry guy, but I checked out your preview and I am ordering the book for my wife. 4 years of college without a single poem ever hitting me the way your first sample did.. Maybe I am just getting old. Great stuff.
"The book that brought me here.."
This is the book that made me write a book and put it on Lulu.
"Poetry w/o pretense" it advertised.
Which is very true( I am a poet chock full of pretense- so after reading the review I felt a tad bit "disinfected").
"Poetry for the COMMON MAN." the title proceeds to offer.
"Right on." You say to yourself- as you are a COMMON MAN(or woman as the case may be).
But you read a bit about the author- anything but common.
You think to yourself-" A professor of microbiology wrote THIS?"
I imagine microbiology would put the world in a bit of "perspective" so to speak- but the man has found his calling in poetry, and the world would be a lesser place if he stopped.