Mind the Gap: Poems by an American in London

Like Mark Twain, his fellow Missourian, Robert Hamblin takes readers on an adventuresome and imaginative journey of the city of Shakespeare, Dryden, Darwin, Mrs. Dalloway, Margaret Thatcher, a Falstaff-looking tramp who tries to bed a lass in a pub, and a whole host of other lively characters his camera-perfect eye captures for us. His poems are witty and written in polished American English vernacular. They sparkle with the piquant sincerity of a man who can exist in and bring into harmonious closure 2 different continents. Since we can't take the Concorde to Heathrow anymore, I urge anglophiles everywhere to read and rejoice in Mind the Gap, which can get us to London even quicker and with more delights than the fabled plane that competed with sound for speed.
--Philip Kolin, editor of the Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia, author of 26 books, and numerous articles and poems.