Paul Chowder is a poet of some little reknown who is sitting in his barn, trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of poetry called Only Rhyme. What unfolds is a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about poetry, among other things; Paul tells us about all of the great poets, from Tennyson, Swinburne, and Yeats to the moderns to the contemporary scene as well as the staff of The New Yorker's editorial department. A tender, wonderfully romantic, often hilarious, and inspired novel.