Anthony Luciani

I started in elementary school. I wrote this long sort of novel about a hawk and a mouse going on a walk and meeting other animals that joined them on their walk. It wasn't very good but the next story I had written was a bit better. It was a short mystery story about a cat who was a detective. Poetry came later after the attacks on the World Trade Center. I submitted a poem to the newspaper in high school and they published it in the Clark County School District newspaper as well. Another poem was submitted to a college magazine called Westering and later the poems from Blurb.com were published as a collaborative work with the computer graphics and design classes. Finally I published the poetry collection on Smashwords,

Well, the idea for this book was kind of bubbling in my mind for quite a while. I read Ovid's Metamorphoses a while back and thought it was interesting the way he retold the history of the Roman empire up to when Caesar ascended the throne. I noticed that there weren't any poetry collections or narratives like that for the modern age and I thought it would be interesting to create a group of poems like that. It was lucky that, at the time I took a few history and historical geology classes as well as a few classes on mythology and culture so I was able to draw much of the material from old school books as well as books from my own collection. Like Ovid I mixed history, science, mythology and culture into the narrative of the collection. I had always been fascinated by these things and how they evolve over time. It just made sense that I'd put all of them together.