Barry Marks

My Father Should Die in Winter Barry Marks

MY FATHER SHOULD DIE IN WINTER is the new poetry chapbook by Barry Marks, author of POSSIBLE CROCODILES, SOUNDING, and DIVIDING BY ZERO. This collection features a series of prose poems entitled "Buck Creek" which are designed to be read aloud. Barry Marks is a Birmingham attorney. His most recent book, DIVIDING BY ZERO, combines poetry, narrative and fiction to tell the story of the damage caused by a writer's self-possession. POSSIBLE CROCODILES, his first book, was named 2010 Book of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society. SOUNDING, his second book, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for Independent Publishers. Barry's most recent project is a pair of poetry/music collaborations with Professor Alan Goldspiel, Chairman of the University of Montevallo. The first, SOMETIMES Y, has been performed at music conferences and universities around the country, and the second, tentatively entitled ... AND SONS, is a companion to this book. Barry was Alabama's Poet of the Year for 1999 and twice President of the Alabama State Poetry Society.