Artists and poets from the past come to life in this series of twenty-four portrait poems by Charles Ghigna. Each portrait is written as a personal letter in the literary form known as the apostrophe and preceded by an introductory quote by each subject. Step inside and discover new revelations about your favorite artists and poets as Ghigna presents a series of hints and observations about each of these artists and poets who shaped how we view art and poetry today.

Charles Ghigna lives in a treehouse in the middle of Alabama. He is the author of more than one hundred books, and more than five thousand poems that appear in textbooks, anthologies, newspapers, and magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and The New York Times. He served as poet-in-residence at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, and is a nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media Services.