Books by Lewis Turco

THE FOREWORD BLUESWesli Court said I should write a book,A bunch of blues-enough to fill a book,And he'd design the cover. I said, "Look,If you'll write half of them, then I will chooseA ball-point pen, a felt-tip-I will chooseTo join you in a modicum of blues."And that's the reason, Reader, we are here-You, Wes and me-we three assembled hereAmong these turning leaves yellow and sere.We hope you'll think the words we write are fine,Our writing bold and dark, but our wordage fine . . . ,At least we hope you'll like the cover design.Envoy EpilogueGo, little book of sorrows, cares and woes,But Wesli's gone. Where? Only goodness knows.

This volume is a compilation of memoirs and poems of the author and his Sicilian immigrant family.

Poetry. "Lewis Turco... appears to have combined the longevity of Utnapishtim with the energy and industry of Gilgamesh: once seized with inspiration, he wrote THE HERO ENKIDU at white heat in his eightieth year. The inspiration itself is of the kind that, once someone has come up with it, makes us wonder why no one ever thought of it before, because in a number of ways Enkidu is a more interesting and attractive figure than Gilgamesh."--Michael Palma, from the Introduction