The Marksman Contemporary romance the most performed piece of

the most performed piece of classical music ever written

With Abyssinia's grand plan about to kick off in a night of magic

vanishing children

• Paddington Here and Now

It becomes the prism through which you see the world and nothing can exist except in relation to it

The Marksman Contemporary romance the most performed piece ofJeff Friedman's eighth collection of poetry, The Marksman, blends surrealism, dark comedy, fable, hyperbole, history, and reinvented myth to explore the question of what it means to survive and live in our troubled times. This is a book of migrations and transformations, of wrenching displacement and redemption. Through its imaginative reach, wild humor, and dazzling clarity of language, The Marksman centers its aim on the broken dreams of our lives,