Poetry. "Alan Catlin is a poet with immense staying power. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY is a selected poems covering more than 20 years and 26 collections in which he writes with dark perceptions ranging from a mentally ill mother, to Garcia Lorca, Shelley, Joyce, denizens of bars, Marianne Moore and much more. These poems are always skillfully composed and illuminated by the light of his intelligence and wit"--Laurel Speer, Small Press Review.