Wesli Court

Epitaphs for the Poets Wesli Court

Wesli Court's Epitaphs for the Poets consists of 100+ very short poems (in various forms including the limerick) encapsulating the lives (and often the manner of death) of poets ranging from the extremely well known, such as Christopher Marlowe--whose handsome and touchingly youthful portrait appears on the cover-- to the gifted-but-obscure.

Not all the poets included are quite ready for their tombstones to be carved; some are alive and well. But not a one of them is exempt from the mordant wit of Wesli Court, aka Lewis Turco, author of The Books of Forms (revised edition just out) and many collections of his own poetry.