Year of the Poet — Ann Hurley

WILD IRISH ROGUE

When Joyce Lanier set out to study Irish poet Neill Riordan, she was merely hoping to make points with her fellow psychologists. But the brash, curly-haired genius demanded that she interview him in the oddest places -- ice-covered Lake Michigan, Irish pubs, even the Chicago Zoo.

After she'd spent months chasing him all over town, Joyce's research was at a standstill, but her feelings had accelerated with the speed of a frenzied wind. To love Neill was to survive a season of storms, a slew of hurricanes, a new world of constantly shifting emotional weather.

Despite the promise of calm after a storm, Joyce would never be the same after this year of the poet.