James Sallis is the author of fifteen novels, including the Lew Griffin cycle, Others of My Kind, and Drive, as well as a biography of Chester Himes, a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin, and other collections of essays and stories, as well as three books of musicology and three prior collections of poems, Sorrow's Kitchen, Rain's Eagerness, and Black Night's Gonna Capture Me Here: New Poems.