Marc Talbert is the talented and prolific author of sixteen widely read novels published with major houses. ALTOGETHER EARNEST extraordinary book is his first published book of poetry. The former Midwesterner lives in Tesuque, New Mexico, and maintains an active psychotherapy practice while producing one engaging book after another. His knowledge and understanding of the travails of young people is equaled by his poetic and sensitive rendering of these pivotal moments as the protagonists first encounter the conundrums of adulthood.