Joel Allegretti is the author of three previous collections of poetry: "Thrum: Poems" (Poets Wear Prada, 2010); "Father Silicon" (The Poet's Press, 2006), selected by "The Kansas City Star" as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006; and "The Plague Psalms" (The Poet's Press, 2000). Allegretti's poetry has appeared in "The New York Quarterly," "Margie," "Fulcrum," "Rattapallax," "Art/Life," "Slipstream," "Confrontation," "Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics" and many other national journals. Frank Ezra Levy, whose symphonic work has been released on Naxos American Classics, set eight of Allegrett...