Myths and Rhymes

A mythic, lyrical journey through addiction, disillusionment, and the remaking of the self.

Myths and Rhymes is a raw and searching collection of poems born from a period of personal transformation. Drafted from notes first written during drug rehabilitation in the summer of 1990, these poems move through mental upheaval, addiction recovery, spiritual collapse, and the struggle to build a new understanding of life.

William Poe reaches for ancient myth, scientific wonder, religious memory, and...