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Blues for the Muse
A ROMANCE IN ROME...
Blues for the Muse, a comedy-adventure set in modern-day Rome, is an unpredictable blend of film-noir danger, roller-coaster romance, and sweet depths of feeling, with an aging, risk-taking hero who should know better and a fetching Italian siren who definitely does. The story touches chords of love and crime and the redemptive power of art, all done in sonnets that are a breeze to read and chocked with pleasures.
"With the grace of Keats-whose poetic presence gives this volume its lively force-Altman whips lusty and literate sonnets into a sweeping, scary, and sensational masterpiece!"
- William Lanouette, author of The Triumph of the Amateurs and Genius in the Shadows.
The story opens and closes in the Roman cemetery where John Keats is buried. In between, it features Italian mobsters and American conmen, Hollywood moviemaking, an unforgettable femme fatale, a high-stakes love affair, concealed identities and unanticipated revelations, the eternal glories of Rome and-almost magically-the presiding spirit of the young English poet who wrote "Bright Star."
Blues for the Muse is a hilarious meditation on life, love, and movie magic, told in whip-smart rhymes that will make you smile with surprise and delight.
Book Details
- Publisher: Silver Tree Press
- Publish Date: Aug 20th, 2021
- Pages: 148
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.56in - 0.94lb
- EAN: 9781737444701
- Categories: • Romance - Romantic Comedy• Noir
Praise for this book
"What to do with Tom Jerome, that classic American on the make, edging past his prime with two basic urges intact: here and now? I laughed hard and even blushed a bit, but most of all I admired the cunning and wisdom of this enchanting new hero and his creator!"
- Lee W. Doty, author of Tidal Kin and Last Casualty
"With the grace of Keats-whose poetic presence gives this volume its focus and its lively force-Altman whips lusty and literate sonnets into a sweeping, scary, and sensational masterpiece. Great, surprising fun!"
-William Lanouette, author of Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb and The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in the Gilded Age
"As in any good film noir, our hero gets clunked on the head by love. The catch? His muse is fed up with playing the femme fatale for a bunch of Roman gangsters. Like all the players in Blues for the Muse, she wants something more. That's just what she gets, and so will you in this spritely, droll, and engrossing tale of romance gone hilariously wrong."
- Sollace Mitchell, director of Call Me and Row Your Boat
"Sonnets have packed a wallop in recent literature, a movement Stephen Altman's dazzling sonnet sequence furthers with film-noir vengeance. More than just a sexy tale of gangsters and femme fatales, Altman's sonnets are serial love poems in the convicted spirit of Berryman's Sonnets by John Berryman and the recent frank: sonnets by Dianne Seuss."
- Ed Zahniser, Poet Laureate of Shepherdstown, West Virginia and author of Mall-hopping with the Great I AM and Confidence in Being