Description:
In the plain-spoken tradition of character-driven poetry, it depicts the sometimes difficult, sometimes luminous lives of mothers and fathers, sons, daughters, friends and lovers as they strive for the bittersweet happiness of hard-won wisdom.
Brief description: An editor, writer, and poet, Charles Grosel grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, and now lives in Arizona with his wife and daughter. He studied English literature at Yale University and fiction writing at the University of California, Davis, where he was a Regents Fellow. He has published stories in journals such as Western Humanities Review, Fiction Southeast, Water-Stone, and The MacGuffin, as well as poems in Slate, The Threepenny Review, Poet Lore, Cream City Review, and Harpur Palate. The Sound of Rain Without Water is his first chapbook.