Broadway for Paul
Author: Katz, Vincent
ISBN: 9781524711535
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 30 Aug 2022
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York CityP#8212;now in paperback.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York City.Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;Pquot;I love the vibrant cinematic hunger of this book, its urbanity, yours and mine too.P#8221;P#160;P#8212;Eileen MylesPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;Broadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for KatzP#39;s path through these poems.Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;From Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouses downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title, with its implication that one could give something as large and undefinable as Broadway to a single person, courts an impossibility that generates the possibility of friendship, as well as the largesse Katz wants to find in our civic discourse. In poems such as Pquot;Ivanka SkirtingPquot; and Pquot;This Beautiful BubblePquot; we encounter his reckoning with a divisive culture that can, he suggests, be healed through our daily acts--through a kind of alert graciousness that also defines his poetry.Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;In this moving collection, we enter KatzP#39;s world, both public and private, and experience poetry as a way of seeing that can change hearts and minds.
ISBN: 9781524711535
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 30 Aug 2022
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York CityP#8212;now in paperback.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York City.Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;Pquot;I love the vibrant cinematic hunger of this book, its urbanity, yours and mine too.P#8221;P#160;P#8212;Eileen MylesPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;Broadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for KatzP#39;s path through these poems.Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;From Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouses downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title, with its implication that one could give something as large and undefinable as Broadway to a single person, courts an impossibility that generates the possibility of friendship, as well as the largesse Katz wants to find in our civic discourse. In poems such as Pquot;Ivanka SkirtingPquot; and Pquot;This Beautiful BubblePquot; we encounter his reckoning with a divisive culture that can, he suggests, be healed through our daily acts--through a kind of alert graciousness that also defines his poetry.Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;In this moving collection, we enter KatzP#39;s world, both public and private, and experience poetry as a way of seeing that can change hearts and minds.
