The Day Sam Goldwyn Stepped Off the Train

Poetry. Compelling work from an LA writer who was an actor, a restaurant manager, a housepainter, a student and a philosopher. According to friend and editor, Paul Vangelisti, Robert Crosson "sought to find a language to think in, a language passionately concerned with things, very specific things." Born in Pennsylvania in 1929, Robert Crosson moved to California with his family in 1944. He is the author of four other volumes of poetry Geographies, Abandoned Latitudes (with John Thomas and Paul Vangelisti), Calliope, The Blue Soprano and In the Aethers of the Amazon. Robert Crosson died in 2001.