Abstract:
Well, okay, alright… so to be completely honest, this book has nothing at all to do with William Shakespeare, his plays or poems… but a book needs a title—or, in this case, a title needed a book… and this is what came along: a collection containing three poetry chapbooks of Bohemian wants and libertine wiles—‘Barroom Poet’, ‘Presumed Journeys’, and ‘Jungle Dirge’—and a variety of short fiction selections, including a series of character sketches entitled ‘Nine Shades of Love’ and Zakharin’s widely acclaimed one-act play ‘Hunger of the Soul’…