The Angel Dialogs

Published March, 2014 – This book is not really a collection of poems; rather, it is a narrative, a story that takes place over a year, in which a poet, who has prayed for a muse, receives instead an angel who teaches him much about what it means to be a human being, and leaves him, at the end of that time, wiser, healthier, and more spiritually aware.

Abbott miters each poem into the next with the precision of a master carpenter, in language that moves seamlessly, often floating, from impressionism into a quirky vernacular narrative …
— Joseph Bathanti, Poet Laureate of North Carolina 2012

(T)his angel … is a double-tasking, sarcastic, Yeats-reading, quantum-leaping trickster …
— Cathy Smith Bowers, Poet Laureate of North Carolina 2010-2012