“For years, Oprah reigned supreme as the city’s bookselling heavyweight, metaphorically speaking, only to take a break and then return to the classics–Faulkner anyone? While this was happening, an heiress to a pill-pushing fortune turned the world of words on its head when she made Chicago’s venerable little Poetry magazine the Valhalla of verse by giving it a god’s fortune. So there you have the beauty and mystery of Chicago’s book world: Oprah and Poetry.”