Get ready to appreciate the ordinary and consider the profound in this dazzling collection of poems.In the title poem, the narrator pays homage to the French horn, writing, in part:The mellow mouth of my French hornis worth all the jade or silveror the superficial birthrightof an old family of scholarsthat Id trade for Scottish whiskeyand the junk I learned in college.While a portion of the poem Dollar Rose reads: Wont you buy a dollar rose, sir, for your sweetheart or your wife?For such a thing of beautyits a very special price.Whether you are looking for the melancholy, the inspirational or simply the offbeat, you will surely enjoy the poetry in I Was a College Dropout: The French Horn Was My Mistress.
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