The Daily Yomiuri reviews “loquacious” Jesse Glass’ The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems, a co-production of Ahadada & West House Books:

The Daily Yomiuri recently met up with Glass during his lunchtime in Shin Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, near the campus of Meikai University, where he teaches literature and history. Asked about his early poetic endeavors, Glass, an avuncular, loquacious fellow with a ready chuckle, produced a battered scrapbook from his crammed shoulder bag. He opened the scrapbook and showed me a yellowed article cut from the Nov. 8, 1973, issue of the Carroll County Times, the local paper of Westminster, Md., where he grew up on a horse farm. The article profiles the 19-year-old Glass, who had just self-published a collection of poems and drawings titled Nigredo. The accompanying photo shows a handsome young chap–imagine a goateed Tobey Maguire–with a thousand-yard stare.

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