![]() Jerry is a provocative yet compelling character. So the structure of the book reflects that, as it is written from three different points of view all centered around him. Jerry is shattered, in pieces, and in probably will never be put together in a way that makes sense to himself or others around him. I wanted to write something different, not just a new character, but a new kind of character. I’ve written a lot of solid characters in the past, solid in that they have a very defined line, a route of progression, flawed, absolutely, but they’re mostly all very concrete you can almost reach out and touch them if you thought about it hard enough. Eventually, I started filling in the spaces between the poems with little bits of story which in turn began to tell a tale of sorts of a man who would eventually become “Jerry”. The poems in this book, however, started to take on a different sort of life of their own separate from what I’d written before. Originally, the book itself was simply going to be a new poetry collection to toss onto the stack of my previous collections. What inspired the idea of Jerry’s character and the life that’s shared in this book? ![]() ![]() A Cage for the Wind is the story of a man who has been through a lot, done a lot, and most of all, gotten away with a lot. ![]()
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