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Lewis, Joel

Poetry

Yellow Pr

Palookas of the Ozone

Small Pr Distribution

Poetry. "In the crazy wisdom of no coincedence, Joel Lewis's collection linked poem, LEARNING FROM NEW JERSEY hit the bed table along with Osip Mandelstam's '50 Poems'. Brothers in predilections, both poets have drawn from an ironic, loving regard for their cities. In Lewis's 'research expedition into/ an ordinary night," his poems draw from his long time legend garnering, epic harrowing, factlet-threshing observations of New Jersey territories. In these poems 'the white noise of secret radios' crackles amid the mysterious geography of 'Great Notch' and 'Ong's Hat.' LEARNING FROM NEW JERSEY is as energetic, faceted and textured as the place it evokes."—Kimberly Lyons

Learning from New Jersey

Talisman House, Publishers

On the Level Everyday: Selected Talks on Poetry and the Art of Living

<p>Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) is among his generation's most admired writers. In many respects, the directions followed in contemporary poetry were set out in the courses and workshops he taught at the Naropa Institute, the University of Michigan, Yale University, the City University of New York, the Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Essex in England, Northeastern Illinois University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and elsewhere. On the Level Everyday brings together key examples of his classroom lectures with other pieces, including two important talks delivered at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York. On the Level Everyday provides an introduction not only to Berrigan's poetics but also the problems of surviving as a poet in America today.</p>

Berrigan, Ted

History & Criticism

Talisman House Pub

Poetry. "Joel Lewis has written some of the best jazz poems I've ever read. In VERTICAL'S CURRENCY he gives us all the humor and empathy an ethno-glossary of North Jersey can provide. Imagine Jim Brodey writing prescriptions on Dr. Williams's pad. RX: One 'urine puck' with coffee every 2 hours for the blues, followed by a dip in the Lou Costello Pool. These poems come at you over the counter like an anodyne with eyes.... Use as needed. And often."—Michael Gizzi

Vertical's Currency: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. "Let me know if this is or isn't ok. Reading the book made me very happy. If it were possible to work 'a dialectical lasagna of grays' into the blurb, I'd do it, but I don't know that I can manage it in a way that serves the p.r. component of jacket copy."—Anselm Berrigan"I think it is possible to read Joel Lewis as the offspring of some celestial union of the New York School and the Objectivists—all that attention to detail, the wild sense of humor—but I read him myself as following in the tradition of the great New Jersey bards, Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams—that wild sense of humor, all the attention to detail. This is a wonderful, joyous book of poems, but even more important is the vision here of the great push-pull between poetry and life. This is one ride you won't want to stop."—Ron Silliman

Surrender When Leaving Coach

Hanging Loose Press

My Shaolin: A Poem of Staten Island

Donald Trump: A Life Inspired Coloring Book For Adults

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Independently published

France: A Geographic Coloring Book For Adults

Children's Books

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