many of us remember fondly from the 1960s as a bright, shining moment of our own creative and intellectual participation in something larger than us, [Baron] Wormser reminds us, was also a time of terrible emotional conflict. The narrator's minor league rock bands ("My Bands") and time served in school ("Missile," "Hebrew School") nudge the borderlands of wretchedness that was in a way the heart of what Buddy Holly, and the other musicians and poets mentioned in these pages, lifted people out of. It's what we measure the present imprisonment of American intellectual life against.from Bangor Daily News: The rock steady voice of a former Maine poet laureate
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