BOOKS: Making the Bard of Brooklyn work for his byline

Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.The Brooklyn PaperOne of the rules here at The Brooklyn Paper (and there are many) is that poetry begets poetry. That means we don’t run poems out of fear that the second our readers lay their eyes on one, we’ll be hit with a tidal wave of new submissions (believe us, it has happened before).

Hardscrabble newspapermen and women like us pride ourselves on the kind of prose that grabs you by the throat and doesn