Poetry. THAT APRIL is a spectacular book. Bill Kushner writes poems made out of fluttering wings. His poet walks the street reading teeshirts, stays home & remembers there was an old man here before me. He makes tea and toasts his own splendiferous aging. These are such warm, horny, homey, lovely human poems. His dying father crying Hold me! and a much younger man (Kushner's then lover) slip in and out of this collection of lyrics. The world is a luminous empty human body changing hands or souls. Reading this I don't feel alone, then I do -- Eileen Myles.

That April

Literature & Fiction

Kushner, Bill

Poetry

United Artists Books

The newest book from one of America's most passionately inventive poets, Bill Kushner, will be featured in the launch of Melville House Publishing's NEW YORK POETS series, the new series meant to tell the rest of the world about the poets they talk about in America's poetry capital.Kushner has long been packing them in for his readings in New York's poetry underground—places such as the KGB Bar and the Cornelia Street Café. Now, In The Hairy Arms of Whitman shows off for the rest of the country how the Bronx-born son of impoverished Russian immigrants has twisted together the strands of New York's greatest poetry movements to come up with a style that is uniquely his own—as offbeat and relentless as Alan Ginsberg and the Village Beatniks, as funny and intellectually sharp as the New York School's John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara, and as spiritually searching and inspiring as New York's first bard, Walt Whitman.In The Hairy Arms of Whitman puts on full display the talents that have long made Kushner a downtown favorite in New York—the linguistic lushness and quirkiness, the conversational wit and personal narrative forms, and the warming quality of compassion and scrappy perseverance.Bill Kushner's In The Hairy Arms of Whitman is an affirming tour de force by an important poet.

In The Hairy Arms of Whitman (New York Poets series)

Children's Books

New York Poets Series

Poetry. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Bill Kushner spins the loose narrative of a lonely ten-year-old Billy whose father is away at war, and who develops a remarkable and touching friendship with his imaginary companion, Abraham Lincoln. This work concludes with the long poem, "Born," that awarded Kushner a New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship. Lisa Jarnot writes, "Taking dictation from the tender haunted places in the heart, Bill Kushner conjures a voice simultaneously innocent and wise." "Memory being abandoned buildings, talented lips, the hairy embrace of Lincoln...A hell of a book," notes Anselm Berrigan. "Kushner takes the New York school aesthetic back to its rich gay roots. Kushner is a master poet of loneliness, evoking childhood, casting it in a cool, benevolent, magical light"--Publishers Weekly.

In Sunsetland with You

Straw Gate Books

Final Confessions of NFL Assassin Jack Tatum

Final Confessions of NFL Assassin Jack Tatum

Sports & Outdoors

Tatum, Jack

Football (American)

Quality Sports Pubns

From Tee to Green to Hollywood: Golfing With the Stars

Chenoweth, Jim

Biographies & Memoirs

Bill Kushner’s poem mind is tender and lavish. It likes to say things a second time, or maybe more times. It is very loving in old age, and fearless. You the reader are never exactly sure what’s “true” in these poems; but, on the other hand, you’re in on the rush. Kushner has asked you there, andwhy be anywhere else? What a beautiful arrival, Bill! Thank you. Alice Notley
What is it Diana Ross sang? About a Love Hangover? “If there’s a cure for this I don’t want it, don’t waaaaant iiiiiiiit!” Love is the one word I can never see, hear, believe enough. Believe it. Bill Kushnerbelieves it. Love’s who when how why. Walking After Midnight is a book of love poems Kushner style! The moon, the leaves. His endearing and odd love for a house that’s not his; I mean of the billions of houses THIS ONE calls out to him. He stands before it, talks to it. This is beautiful! In a world addicted to irony and apathy, Bill Kushner writes undaunted beside love. What a lucky world that he is here! CA Conrad
Walking After Midnight brims with explicit lovemaking, mad gay crushes, and love, love, love. Bill Kushner’s poems reveal the making of himself as a young poet and chart the evolution of his erotic nature. As the poet reaches his eighth decade, he continues to cultivate a garden of earthly delights and sexy surprises. Brenda Coultas

Walking After Midnight

Spuyten Duyvil

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