A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted.
When first published, A Gentle Madness astounded and delighted readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book.
A Gentle Madness
The book also includes the most comprehensive bibliography on book collecting compiled in more than a quarter century.
A collection of poems written on my travels reflecting on love and life and madness and the things that touched me along the path.
The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A...