Bordighera Press
The Parakeets of Brooklyn/Parrocchetti Di Brooklyn
Product Code:
9781884419676
ISBN13:
9781884419676
Condition:
New
$14.24
The Parakeets of Brooklyn/Parrocchetti Di Brooklyn
$14.24
LaFemina's book is the Bordighera Poetry Prize #6, first published in 2005. "What draws me to Gerry LaFemina's poems is how much of the world they contain: Brooklyn streets, race-tracks, Vietnam, a boy's imagined transgressions, family dramas. What is compelling is the tension between the speaker's urge to understand and they mystery that resists explanation - the partial understandings, the misunderstandings of childhood.... listen to how these poems search as they attempt to tease out meaning.[...] LaFemina's poems ripple with erotic desire, the budding sexuality of young boys, the lure of the nape hidden under a woman's hair, the interiority of the boy who'd slid into the sleeve of the dark suit left by his father.[...] It's a gritty and tender gamble." Donna Masini (Bordighera Poetry Prize judge)
| Author: Gerry Lafemina |
| Publisher: Bordighera Press |
| Publication Date: Jan 28, 2008 |
| Number of Pages: 120 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1884419674 |
| ISBN-13: 9781884419676 |
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