When Love Becomes Still Life

When Love Becomes Still-Life is a collection of poems and short stories drawn from the heart of memory, family, and place. At once lyrical and unflinching. Paul Brookman reflects on life as a saloonkeeper's son growing up around a tavern in Washington, D.C. and his adult life in along the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland. The poems capture Still-Life moments while the short stories of The Saloonkeeper's Son resilience and the passage of time. In the final tale, Picture in the Tavern , the everyday becomes legend, illuminated with the weight of history and intimacy of lived experience. Paul has turned his life into art and asks readers to consider the still-life moments in their own lives.