Mister N Rosie Shepperd those very voices that make

those very voices that make poetry such a vital

It provides selections from each of her volumes of poetry published over a writing career that spans six decades

A work for our times

Charles O’Neal

Mister N Rosie Shepperd those very voices that makeModern day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile, on the streets below, a grim pageant: poverty, violence and fear. How is anyone supposed to write deathless prose in such circumstances? Let alone an old man like Mister N., whose life and memories have become scattered, whose