Playboy After Hours

April, 1997

Ham on the RangeWhat are we to make of Jack Palance's first published work, a book of poems titled The Forest of Love (Summerhouse)? In it, he describes various love affairs and his touching relationship with a bunch of trees. There's no doubt Palance is a passionate man--how else could he summon the emotion he so generously expresses in his films? But consider this passage: "Almost every moment of my waking day/is filled with thoughts of you/I don't know where this path is leading me/but y...