I’d like to follow the previous posts celebrating National Poetry Month (here, here, and here) with a hastily composed bookspine poem titled “The Happy Lawyer”. I imagine that before they printed words on magnets, people would rearrange their books to write poems on the fly. Bookspine poetry is celebrated by libraries and readers alike.
The Happy Lawyer
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In the same spirit, I would like to offer a less “happy” bookspine ode, composed entirely of titles of books written by my colleague David Papke and listed in Marqcat.
Myth and meaning
Political crimes
The clash of labor and capital
In industrial America
The defenders
Framing the criminal
Heretics in the temple