“Hours of delight” in Epitaphs for the Poets

Check out Mary Ann Sullivan’s The Tower Journal review of Epitaphs for the Poets by Wesli Court (alias Lewis Turco)! The book encapsulates the lives of over 100 well-known and obscure poets, both living and dead, and Sullivan praised the collection highly, saying:

“Pick this book up and, believe me, you will not put it down soon.”

Dr. Turco is a prolific writer and has published 50 books, including The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Including Odd and Invented Forms; The Book of Literary Terms; and The Book of Dialogue. In 1962, he founded the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and the Department of Creative Writing at S.U.N.Y. Oswego in 1968. He currently lives in Maine.

Epitaphs for the Poets–now out!

Poems about poets: longer than R.I.P. but short enough to be carved on a tombstone (whether the poet is great, famous, and dead; great, famous, and alive; or great and obscure). Each poem is a gem whose facets are fact, wit, and lit crit. Order your copy now from our distributor, Itasca!

Celebrating Lewis Turco, “rock star of the poetry world”

Do we have any readers in Unity, Maine? Come out April 7 and celebrate National Poetry Month as Unity College honors Lewis Turco. Lewis’s alter ego, Wesli Court, has a book coming out with BrickHouse in April, too: Epitaphs for the Poets. Here’s a preview sampling from The Flea.

Epitaphs for the Poets–coming soon!

Coming in early April: Wesli Court’s Epitaphs for the Poets!

“Wesli Court” is the anagram pen-name that Lewis Turco, author of The Book of Forms, uses when he writes his traditionally formal poems and modern versions of Medieval verse. With typical good humor, Court has written Turco’s epitaph as well (though prematurely):

R.I.P. LEWIS TURCO
May 2, 1934 –
Here lies at last and out of work,
The syllabubble wordsmith Turk
Who finds he cannot now resort
For rime to his sidekick Wesli Court.

Do you have a hero you’d like to write an epitaph for? How about an enemy?