Stephen M HonigStephen M. Honig is an attorney, author and poet. The writer sees his life as a series of educational experiences, each creating more questions than answers, considered in light of an examination of what has been revealed of human history and its caues deeply buried in our DNA. I fear I am ill-qualified to report to you the results of such an effort, particularly in the form of poems disparate in content and format. What qualifications arose from my American life? Perhaps no qualifications other than an observation of a life closely observed. Perhaps this is akin to a history of battles, as reported by a buck private, when what is really needed is a summary by one of the generals who can see the whole battlefield. Laertes in America attempts to identify an amalgam of working hypotheses as to whom one person has become as his expectable time line approaches zero on the axis. Join this effort and see if it adds to your own understandings of America, of human beings, of love, of fear, of the world around us, and of what to think about your own time line. Stephen Honig has practiced law and fatherhood over five decades. A refugee from the Ivy League, and a 78 year old corporate attorney living in Newton, Massachusetts, he contemplates the college departure of his youngest son, and his own future under the tutelage of his wife Laura - and at the beck and call of Popcorn, who has his same longevity in dog years. Laertes in America follows poetry books Messing Around with Words, Rail Head and Obligatory COVID Chapbook, and a collection of short stories entitled Noir Ain't the Half of It. A novel is next, because why not hit for the cycle? Read More Read Less