Here is a collection of 52 poems-just like the title says-dexterously composed by novelist Julian Berengaut. Some have been published in various journals, but they all appear together here for the first time. They're about growing up and hearing and trying to decipher family stories, and about telling in turn the life stories of those who followed. And they're about today's culture, too, celebrating the successes of art and literature while asking tough questions about our basic problems. The poems of Julian Berengaut are smartly observant and sympathetic to the little crumbs of reality that, in a mysterious way, give rise to poetry. They're engagingly readable, and also they're expansive-just like the way this large-format book is designed, including its curious interaction with the famous gallery exhibit called "Room," by Kazimierz Malewicz.
