Breakfast at Mel's

Never has Douglas Lochhead's work been so focused on life's physicality. Exultant or downcast, playful or meditative, the poems in Breakfast at Mel's and Other Poems of Love and Places grasp and hold what is real to the senses. This zest for life, along with the technical brilliance readers have come to expect of Lochhead's work, makes Breakfast at Mel's a collection of superbly crafted poetry that will appeal to the heads and hearts of a wide spectrum of readers.