A. L. Sutton is a Vietnam veteran who lives in Phoenix, Arizona and writes because he must. Sutton’s nephew, Mark Holman, a Harvard grad, was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. This delightful uncle (poet) and nephew (prosist) team brings us “Windows: Navigating City Life,” a modern drama unfolding in urban poetry and prose. The two authors collaborated on Windows after Holman returned from living in Italy in 1994.

Inspired by Sutton’s vivid words, the poems were woven into a story of recollections as a protagonist took a bus ride through Los Angeles. Holman coined much of the prose as he logged hundreds of miles of bus and light rail trips through metropolitan Los Angeles. Holman wrote, “I was inspired to link the poetry and prose as I remembered a Middle Ages author named Boethius, whom I studied when I was at Harvard. We studied The Consolation of Philosophy, a Menippean Satire that regularly alternated prose and verse.”