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)

Kushner, Bill

Children's Books

New York Poets Series

One of NYC's most popular poets issues "The work of a lifetime".In the vanguard of contemporary poetry since the 1970’s, Colette Inez’s unique and thoroughly original voice is an important contribution to American Poetry. She has been praised by poet laureate Stanley Kuntiz—"I like the hard contents of her poems, the anger and the fine control"—and Anne Sexton, who said Inez’s work gave her "that kind of pain/pleasure one gets from the real thing."Her latest collection combines her wild sense of fun with wide-ranging erudition, in a book that is both a love letter to New York City and to the great tradition of the Enlightenment. SPINOZA DOESN'T COME HERE ANY MORE shows Inez at the peak of her talents, in a stunning tour-de-force that may be the most impassioned yet controlled work of her illustrious career. The collection shows her voice to be as vivacious, smart, and fiery as ever, now with a seasoned wisdom and compassion that's absolutely beguiling. It is, in short, the work of a lifetime.

Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore (New York Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Inez, Colette

Poetry

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