ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lou resides on a hill in East Setauket. He lives amongst chipmunks, blue jays, squirrels, and one woodpecker with whom he plays catch. The baseball is a peanut. He also lives with his grandmother, Marian. She is a marvel and a mezzo-soprano. He writes down words on paper; she lifts lyrics off the page. She also gives them rocket ship wings and lands them on a treble clef staff in the sky. Constellations sing for billions of years, don’t you know.
He graduated from Adelphi University with a degree in Mathematics, but majored in trying to solve the abstract equation of what life is about. His real education has come from friends and lushes, preachers and professors, colleagues and former students—and has been further sparked by the skyscrapers of Manhattan, the harboring waters of Port Jefferson, the rollercoasters of Coney Island, the cornfields of Indiana, the razor breezes of Chicago, and the hollow craters of the Moon. His style is most influenced by the writers O. Henry, E.E. Cummings, and Tom Robbins.