ESCAPE OF THE UNICORN consists of a play and selected poems In the play the troubadour Robert de Chanson is imprisoned under sentence of death in the tower room of a castle in Southern France It is during the fourteenth century and the year of the last crusade Into his prison room has come the entire medieval world with questions as to the sanity of war and politics the rights of women the significance of art the purpose of religion and the ultimate importance of life The second half of the book contains poems selected from published poems of the author They range from his experiences as a boy in a small midwestern town to war and art and literature in the Twentieth Century