Praise for Biography of the Boy who Prays to the God of Foreheads

"In a narrative where imagination and music take center stage, where 'birds stumble after thrown stones' and 'the attic winks,' these poems reinvent themselves again and again, slowly revealing one boy's secret and his survival."           
          Blas Falconer, Author of  A Question of Gravity and Light

“Admirably eerie, at times angry, and others necessarily sentimental, Glenn Sheldon’s Biography of the Boy Who Prays to the God of Foreheads freaked me out in the best sense.  In this current, troubled moment of history, we often overlook the power of allegory.  Only a poet as amazing as Sheldon can triumph over ‘war-worn amnesiac bats.’  His words are never ‘too fast, too flung.’ Sheldon’s words and the ‘fantastically small spaces between them’ broke my heart and mended it, too.”      
          Steve Fellner, Author of All Screwed Up

BIOGRAPHY OF THE BOY WHO PRAYS TO THE GOD OF FOREHEADS //
GLENN SHELDON

About the Author
Glenn Sheldon has been writing and publishing for over three decades.  In addition to a few chapbooks, Glenn published his first full-length poetry book, Bird Scarer (Èervená Barva Press) a few years ago.  His second full-length poetry collection, Angel of Anarchy (Ahadada Books) is due out in 2011.  Some say his careful ear and eye as a poet have created a body of precise and challenging work.

Originally from Salem, Massachusetts, he is currently an Honors Professor of Humanities at The University of Toledo, Ohio, where he teaches Multicultural Literature and Cultural Studies, as well as other courses.  

He has published in many journals, from major literary sites to experimental venues.  These magazines include:  Bombay Gin, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Coe Review, Ellipsis, Heliotrope, Hunger Mountain, Icon, Madison Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Montserrat Review, Oasis, Off the Rocks, Pebble Lake Review, Puerto del Sol, Solo, Wavelength, and Xavier Review.