Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist. By Neal Bowers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, [1997] 2007. Pp. xvii+152. $14.95 paper.

Neal Bowers, a well-published poet and tenured university professor, is living the good life in Ames, Iowa. Or at least he is, until he learns that several of his poems have been plagiarized, meaning stolen and published nearly word for word under a name other than his own. This startling news rocks his life, setting him off on a search for the perpetrator that fundamentally alters his orientation to his life's work.

For the most part, this is a book of enormous disappointment and disillusionment. How could someone steal his work so brazenly? ...

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