Shall We Have Magic Author:Alan Baxter Shall We Have Magic? is a book of poems by Alan Baxter, featuring the artwork of Tom Romano, and edited by Kyle Torke. "I usually write about the eternal happenings in nature, but in my poems the Divine usually turns up in areas not usually expected." — --This is what Alan Baxter states in the interview given him in Richard Ramson's... more » documentary Bohemia: The Life of a New York City Poet. In Baxter's book Shall We Have Magic? you will not only find very interesting poems about nature's grandeur, but you will also find a skewed universe where God's awesome presence can be felt in a college lecture hall gun-downed by an insane young student, in a kinky, raves- after- hours NYC party hosted by a suicide-minded doorman, and in the whisperings within "the loneliness of the lover/aching for his passionate partner."
As poet/songwriter Robin Small-McCarthy says: "Alan Baxter's poetry is a delightfully eclectic, enlightening smorgasbord of humor, pathos, and social commentary--wonderfully subversive."« less