THE CLASSICAL WORLD is Thomas Fuller's second book of fiction. His first, MONSIEUR AMBIVALENCE, A POST- LITERATE FABLE, received a Finalist Award in the Fiction Category at the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. A poet, he's written seven books and chapbooks of poetry, including Days By Themselves and The Frog Club, under his given name, Brooks Roddan, as well as the quasi-memoir, MARE ISLAND.