This collection was originally created for Albert's editor and friend as a gift, but was later edited and created as a full book of poetry. A review of his poetry is as follows:
Albert, a poet from Chicago where he currently lives as a retired entertainment journalist and local broadcaster, wrote for magazines such as Timeout Chicago and similar online and print publications like Concierge Preferred, Fortune 500 company Reed Business Inc., and was also an entertainment journalist for Champaign's WPGU.
"Albert's poetry [on the other hand] is threaded with whimsy, a form of "notes to self" that offers the reader surprising relief from the poems’ often traumatic subject matter. Playing unapologetically with phrasing and cadence, and indeed eschewing more traditional poetic structuring, his poems have an identifiable rhythm and voice of their own – a storytelling format that laces despair with hope."
Collectively, it forms a respectful, dutiful ministry by means of sharing both some of his darkest shame, self-deprecating guilt, and deeds that would otherwise be kept deep inside the bowels of a writer's conscious, juxtaposing unique takes on the goodness (and ugliness) of the human character.
"Albert’s poetry grapples with the very human themes of love, faith, and humanity itself, and his childlike preoccupation with time travel hints at a deeper longing for a past that he can clean up, fix, and recreate and often desperately searches in the enclaves of his own despair for a magic answer.
Clearly inspired by W.H. Auden and Billy Collins, and with the tone of a more sensitive Charles Bukowski, Albert details his own past trauma, touching on homelessness, severe poverty, loss, and life at the margins, he describes a world most of his readers will have never known, much less considered. He puts them face to face with it, lulling them into this world with a graceful rhythm and purposeful diction. The form of his poetry is the salve on the wounds of its themes.₁
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