Child's Play: Collected Poems

Engler is not only one of today's premier gay writers, but an inspiring wordsmith for all audiences.-J. Masiulewicz, U-Direct" a poet of the first rank."-Michael Morgan

Robert Klein Engler was born into a poor, Southside Chicago family. His father died when he was a boy, leaving his mother alone to raise four children. He eventually worked his way through college, ending up with degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He then became a poet and a professor at the City Colleges of Chicago, advancing there to become a department chair and a labor union leader. He was banned from the college by the chancellor in 1997, and wrote about this experience in his book A Winter of Words. Robert continues to teach and live in Chicago and New Orleans.His books, including American Shadow, are available from Amazon.com. Headwaters/Hudson Press has scheduled the release of his multipart poem, ?The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering (In the Modernist Style),? in chapbook form for later in 2004.