This is an intriguing story about a man in mid-life who is forced to return to his roots to rediscover himself.
Phil Falco, an executive in his late fifties, living in Orlando suddenly finds himself on the unemployment line. Recently divorced, he struggles with alimony, dwindling assets and no prospects. A valuable property at the Jersey Shore should have been his ace in the hole. But then money earmarked for the mob, mysteriously disappears thanks to his best friend Carmine, a freelance courier for a notorious mob boss. Carmine’s serious miscalculation draws Phil into a life and death struggle with the underworld that could cost him his big score. His estranged daughter Lisa, a wannabe actress living in LA, has more bad news. Forced to start over, he returns to Newark, the city he once called home. While he searches in vain for the missing money, Phil stumbles onto his own redemption instead.
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
