A Nashville Woman & Other Sorrows begins with a set of poems about a country musician's doomed romance and then takes the reader on a journey into the dark sequined heart of Nashville's music industry. This is poetry, but it's accessible in a way that some readers compare to '60s pop culture poet Rod McKuen's books, including McKuen's popular Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows. The subjects of the poems include romance, rejection, death, modern muses, the art and craft of songwriting, pickup trucks, heroes, Taylor Swift, aging cowboys, and those artistic souls destroyed or nearly destroyed by the...