This is the book of an urban mystic, someone who believes that the streets he walks, the incidents he sees and in which he sometimes plays a part have significance; he understands that the hidden beauty and music of New York City. Madison Avenue, the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park appear and reappear as though they, the poet, and the work were inseparable. The people he recalls - a bag lady, E.E. Cummings - are as familiar to us as the city itself, but here they are lyrical and light, these poems also hold love, loss, melancholy, and tenderness -they reflect the incessant rhythms between a man and his surroundings.
- ISBN10 0819550973
- ISBN13 9780819550972
- Publish Date 14 March 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wesleyan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 87
- Language English