Richard H. Mannsfield was once at the forefront of the world of contemporary rhyming verse poetry. His poems delighted adults and children alike. But today, he has been almost completely forgotten. The Million Dollar Tuna was his first published anthology of poetry. The poems are written in a rhyming verse similar to the style of Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, Rudyard Kipling, Roald Dahl, and Robert W. Service. In Mannsfield's early career, he was something of a formalist, always adhering to a strict rhyme and meter. It wasn't until his later works that he began experimenting with relaxed and...