PUBLISHED BY GRACE NOTES BOOKS This is the 1st collection in book form from award-winning & celebrated poet, Steven M. Grant. Grant describes himself as "A Southern California boy lost in Manhattan" and much of his work mirrors this description at every turn; reminiscent of both the pulsing grit of Gotham and the crashing of Pacific waves against a timeless mountainside. With the squalor of the city looming; his words make the heart ache for the loneliness and the stench, the noise and the chaos, and elevate these offenses into something wholly new and undeniably beautiful. OKAY, BUT WHAT ARE THE REVIEWER'S SAYING? "Grant's poems are city-tough and road-warrior-conditioned, with language as gritty and rough as you'll find in a city street . You can sense the metallic taste and smells and feel the city seep under your fingernails and work its way into your pores. You read these poems, and you know you're never truly free of the city, and you don't want to be." -Glynn Young, Award-winning speechwriter & contributing editor for The High Calling "The man writes with the slick of a seasoned urbanite that has not lost his predilection for looking in from the outside. He voyeurs you into the changing rooms and sweat-pits of what it means to be significant and ordinary, to be exceptional and irrelevant." - Renée Sigel, Boababpapers Publishing & Printing Information: Grace Notes Books & Publishing is a "green" company in the sense that we do not believe in waste and prefer not to kill more trees than necessary in our ambition to publish beautiful books. As a result we use Amazon's Createspace for printing purposes. This enables us to order only the number of books we need, when we need them, and as a division of Amazon it offers the powerful distribution options that come from working through a large company. Unfortunately, our books are listed as being 'Published By: Createspace' here Amazon and other distribution venues. To clarify, Grace Notes Books are NOT self-publishing endeavors nor do authors pay any sort of fees to have their books published through us. Grace Notes Books is operated in the tradition of any small publishing company; with a full staff of gifted editors, artists, and graphic designers, among others. Books published by Grace Notes Books are submitted by authors and chosen by our editors in the same traditional way of small presses everywhere.