Sunspot Boulevard

About the Book

Every town of any size has its Sunspot Boulevard, where overpriced high-rise condominiums stand cheek-by-jowl with ramshackle junk shops whose rickety wooden display bins force foot traffic into the street. But every structure on Sunspot Boulevard is a repository for dreams, and dreams, after all, are the common denominator, the universal stock-in-trade—and many of these dreams are manna to the average mental health professional. And that’s where Robert Dunn comes in, guiding his squeaky pushcart between potholes and derelicts, weaving these dreams into poems, and picking a few pockets on the side. The poems found along this particular Sunspot Boulevard range from harmless reveries to rock-’em-sock-’em sheet-ripping night-warpers and, if purchased individually, would range from a dollar a word to a dollar a quart. And yet, dreams notwithstanding, everything enclosed herein is the honest-to-god truth because, not unlike Will Rogers, all Mr. Dunn knows “…is what he reads in the papers.” The fact that the papers in question are the funny papers should not be taken as an aspersion on the poems’ veracity. Sunspot Boulevard also includes guest appearances by some of the author’s less objectionable cronies—Villanelle Mel, Sestina Turner, and Tanka Tucker, to name a few. To sum up, only Robert Dunn could have cultivated a collection such as Sunspot Boulevard, and only Robert Dunn could have shepherded them past the Zoning Commission. Finally, the author requests all readers to please not to forget to have exact fare for the crosstown bus.

About the Author

Four billion years ago, poet, artist, and bon vivant Robert Dunn created the world via the “Big Bang” method when he tripped over a loose floorboard in a vacation cabin he was renting. (Now you know something that even Einstein didn’t.) Acknowledging the obvious botch job, he has since restricted himself to more manageable artistic pursuits, such as his term as Executive Editor of Medicinal Purposes Literary Review and hawking his earlier books, Zen Yentas in Bondage and Guilty as Charged. Mr. Dunn lives, works, and pays altogether too many parking tickets in New York City.