PORTRAITS OF POETS PAST: THE AUTHOR INTERACTS WITH 18 GREAT POETS OF THE PAST (THE CONCISE POETRY WORKS of T.N. TURNER) Paperback – January 2, 2026

This edition of PORTRAITS OF POETS PAST was previously published in 1994 under this same title by T.N. Turner, and is printed with premium ink on white paper. This fully revised edition of the book published in 1994 now includes 16 original B&W photographs in addition to the original 18 poems in which the author-narrator interacts with 18 great poets of the past.The original poem, “The Spouter Inn,” has been greatly expanded into a science-fiction fantasy, in which the reader drops onto a street in New Bedford, Massachusetts (a 19th century whaling town) where he meets a drunken Herman Melville and embarks on an exciting adventure on the high seas.Much text of the poems in PORTRAITS OF POETS PAST contains real biographical information about each poet, but other text is fictional.PORTRAITS OF POETS PAST is composed in the simple language and unique, home-grown style of my poetry--what I call "organic naturalism"--deceptively simple, direct, non-synthetic, non-AI-deformed, non-boring, frequently humorous and entertaining.Please check out other poetry books in my series THE CONCISE POETRY WORKS of T.N. Turner. You won’t be disappointed with any of these books.Thank you for reading this description of PORTRAITS OF POETS PAST, T.N. Turner Read more