These poems have completely got rid of the conventional, artificial phraseology. There is no doubt that the poet very aptly traverses an immense range of emotion and experience. Here we find the poet's passion and powerful imagination in rich abundance.
"Structured like a sestina with six sections of six poems each and a seventh section of three poems, Mad Sestina King weaves around and around itself with themes in a narrative fashion within language's and art's intricacies; family and friends; desire, romance, and departure; the mundane mixed with the murderous; the richness and depth of culture; the personalities of the wild and wicked; and, of course, sestinas themselves. Narrated in a voice that is alternately comic, ironic, foreboding, poignant, passionate, and detached, Mad Sestina King promises the reader a wild journey provided by the versatile skills of a troubadour who possesses a variety of tricks and maneuvers within his story-telling sleeves"-- Provided by publisher