Marty Gervais is a poet, prose writer, photographer, historian, journalist and publisher from Windsor, Ontario. Marty is special to me because he published my first book at his publishing house Black Moss Press. He's a gifted reader of his own work, also an amiable and hilarious raconteur. When you read the first poem "Cathedrals," remember that Windsor sits across the river from Detroit. When you read the second, remember that Marty was raised Catholic by the nuns and speaks easily if whimsically of angels and such. And when you "The Wedding Dress," beautiful and aching with human sweetness, remember that he is a family man with a large heart.