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At a special school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't educated history, geography, or mathematics - at least not in the most common ways. Instead, they can be educated to persuade. Here the fine art of coercion has been elevated to a science. Students harness the hidden vitality of language to manipulate the mind and learn to breakdown individuals by psychographic markers in order to manage their thoughts. The very best will graduate as "poets": adept wielders of terms who participate in a nameless corporation that is really as important as it is secretive. Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff is making a living running a three-card Monte game on the pavements of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA when she draws in the interest of the organization's recruiters. She actually is flown in the united states for the school's weird and rigorous entrance examinations, where, once admitted, she will be taught the basics of persuasion by Brontë, Eliot, and Lowell - who've adopted the brands of famous poets to conceal their true identities. For in the organization, nothing is more threatening than revealing who you are: Poets must never expose their feelings lest they be manipulated. Emily becomes the school's most talented prodigy until she makes a catastrophic mistake: She comes in love. Meanwhile, a relatively innocent man known as Wil Jamieson is brutally ambushed by two weird men within an airport bathroom. Although he has no recollection of anything they declare he's done, as it happens Wil is the key to a magic formula warfare between rival factions of poets and it is quickly caught in their increasingly lethal crossfire. As both narratives converge, the shocking work of the poets is totally revealed, the body count increases, and the planet accidents toward a Tower of Babel event which would leave all terms meaningless.
