Author : David Mark Katz
Publisher : DOS Madres Press
ISBN 13 : 9781948017664
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (176 download)
Book Synopsis In Praise of Manhattan by : David Mark Katz
Download or read book In Praise of Manhattan written by David Mark Katz and published by DOS Madres Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "From the island of Manhattan, David M. Katz brings poems of elegy and praise, the gifts of a lifetime that embraces a city in constant flux. A formal master whose blank verse glides effortlessly between the eloquent and the colloquial, Katz invokes the greats--Frost, Stevens, Yeats, and more--but, in poem after poem, it is Katz's own voice that shines most unforgettably. Poems of mid-twentieth-century childhood give way to the struggles of a young journalist and young father, arch commentaries on contemporary culture, and moving meditations on identity and family. His two elegies for the poetic Zen masters Dick Allen and Allen Ginsberg are essential reading. His crown of sonnets, 'On Retirement,' is both a flawless tour-de-force and a tender look at the complicated interactions of memory and loss between father and son, the past and the present. Whether listening to "Rubber Soul" on some long-ago afternoon, hearing the 'three beats of the whippoorwill' in his son's nighttime crying, or walking 34th Street while decades of its history converge with the present moment, David M. Katz remains a poet of rare gifts, a generous spirit whose poems--'those lines in which the living hear the dead'--wrestle with darkness while engaging with life."--NED BALBO