A collection of more than twenty poems with varied themes as city life, autumn, spiders, and love.

The Roller Coaster Kid and Other Poems

Wallenstein, Barry

Children's Books

Thomas Y. Crowell

A collection of more than twenty poems with varied themes as city life, autumn, spiders, and love.

Olympic Marketing Corp

Visions and Revisions: An Approach to Poetry

Thomas Y. Crowell Company

Love and Crush: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Persea Books

"The feeling here is 'urban' -- a certain removal or distancing combined with keen awareness, the sense of the impersonal wash of night coming over the lonely multitudes amid the surrealistic concrete.... The wry, lost energy of these pieces is the lyric voice of its generation." - M.L. Rosenthal

Beast Is A Wolf With Brown Fire (New Poets of America)

BOA Editions, Ltd.

Poetry. Music. This new collection of lyric poems is divided into four parts. The first, At the Surprise Hotel, is a sequence set in an international hotel; each of the 19 episodes turns on a surprise. The surprises are emblematic of the various eccentricities of the denizens of this hotel, many recognizable. The second part is Events, where each narrative is a short fragment of a story. The third part, Encounters, contains love poems, primarily erotic. The final section, Departures presents variations on the theme of mortality. Each section of the book also contains performance poems and song lyrics, which were written with the intention to be read aloud; many have been recorded and performed with jazz collaboration.

At the Surprise Hotel and Other Poems

The Ridgeway Press

Barry Wallenstein's poetry, from his first book in 1977 to now, addresses his awareness of time's swift passing. The poems continue this time-honored theme and its attendant thoughts and emotions. Now in his eighth decade this theme is paramount. While time is explicitly central in the first and eighth sections, other sections speak of desire, music, current events, creatures of all sizes and states of mind. Poems in each of the groups reflect the anxieties of our current period including references to the ongoing pandemic and quarantine, as well as overriding reflections on temporality. These poems also are full of appreciation and gratitude for life's bounty. While avoiding the "personal" or autobiographical, Wallenstein's emotional life is more apparent here than in his work of the past. 
Poetry.

It's About Time

NYQ Books

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The Roller Coaster Kid and Other Poems

The Roller Coaster Kid and Other Poems

Visions and Revisions: An Approach to Poetry

Love and Crush: Poems

Beast Is A Wolf With Brown Fire (New Poets of America)

At the Surprise Hotel and Other Poems

It's About Time