Flamingo

Frank Polite

From the “just because it's on a press doesn't make it better than self-published stuff” files comes Flamingo, a collection of poetry and short prose pieces from Frank Polite. When Frank is good, he is very, very good; when Frank is bad…

This is without doubt a personal preference, but I have always had a problem with pieces where the author steps into an already-established scene. Polite does this repeatedly (most egregiously, he writes himself into Casablanca), and the pieces where he does it drive me up the wall. That said, among the rest of the book, there will once in a while be a gem. Those gems are too few and far between to make this a recommended book. It's certainly not worth the $51 the only copy presently on Amazon is commanding.