The Anthologist

by Nicholson Baker

Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he's having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker's brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry.

Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He is the author of seven novels, including Vox and The Mezzanine, and three previous works of nonfiction, including Double Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001. He lives in Maine with his family.

A wonderful story, complete with cogent lyrical insight, of a poet, with a severe case of writers block, compiling an anthology, and a personal life which is in shambles.

Compelling story of the way in which outcastes are compelled to adjust to the world and the pain that engenders.