This Drawn & Quartered Moon takes pre-millenial San Francisco as its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam vet named Othello, a Mafia don, a drug mule en route to jail, Elvis Presley (the poet’s father was his doctor), a “Sculptor of the Lower Fillmore Head Shot,” a dying Arab king and Courtney Love.

“Autodidact and gregarious loner” klipschutz alternates personal with public poems, satires with romance, dramatic monologues with prose poems, street swagger with delicate songs that carry their own music. Over ten years in the making, this collection evokes the restless spirits of predecessors such as Nicanor Parra, Gregory Corso and Kenneth Patchen.