New York and Other Lovers: Poems - Softcover

George Guida

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980191610 ISBN 13: 9780980191615

Publisher: Smalls Books, 2008

Synopsis

In poems that defy easy definition, New York and Other Lovers sings the passion, loss and redemption of people who dare to love the world's greatest city and each other as they step through its shadows and light. It is George Guida's second collection of poems, and his first published by Smalls Books. Smalls Books is a part of the legendary Smalls Jazz club in New York City. It publishes fiction and poetry with the same vibe that Smalls Jazz Club produces great music: animated by the soul of New York City.

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About the Author

George Guida is the author of Low Italian: Poems (Bordighera, 2006) and The Peasant and the Pen: Men, Enterprise and the Recovery of Culture in Italian American Narrative (Peter Lang, 2003). His poems, stories and essays appear in many journals and collections.

Review

Guida's poems dig deep, plant seeds, grow and blossom. A harvest for readers. --Bob Holman--poet, impresario, guru In poems that are in turn part Frank O'Hara, part Woody Allen and part Frank Sinatra, George Guida gives us a book that celebrates love and New York. Unabashed and joyously unapologetic in its romanticism, New York and Other Lovers builds a cityscape of poems where we may all fall head over heels. --Gerry LaFemina, winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize, author of The Parakeets of Brooklyn, editor of Review Revue George Guida gives us New York all right, in all its splendor and misery. The poet is Outer Boroughed, as he titles one of his paeans to the gritty streets of Brooklyn and Queens, which he much prefers to Manhattan's marble lobbies...and silver-handled bathroom tip jars. The other lovers are mostly might-have-beens, failed or wistfully imagined suburban marriages that he didn't really want. But what does he want? Mostly he wants to communicate his sadness and outrage at life in the decaying city he loves, and he succeeds strikingly in these moving poems about what it's like to be a poet in New York in our time. --Norman Stock, winner of the Writer s Voice Award, author of Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot --Jacket Copy

George Guida gives us New York all right, in all its splendor and misery. The poet is Outer Boroughed, as he titles one of his paeans to the gritty streets of Brooklyn and Queens, which he much prefers to Manhattan's marble lobbies...and silver-handled bathroom tip jars. The other lovers are mostly might-have-beens, failed or wistfully imagined suburban marriages that he didn't really want. But what does he want? Mostly he wants to communicate his sadness and outrage at life in the decaying city he loves, and he succeeds strikingly in these moving poems about what it's like to be a poet in New York in our time. --Norman Stock, winner of the Writer s Voice Award, author of Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot

In poems that are in turn part Frank O'Hara, part Woody Allen and part Frank Sinatra, George Guida gives us a book that celebrates love and New York. Unabashed and joyously unapologetic in its romanticism, New York and Other Lovers builds a cityscape of poems where we may all fall head over heels. --Gerry LaFemina, winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize, author of The Window Facing Winter, editor of Review Revue

About this edition

• Publisher: Smalls Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0980191610
• ISBN 13: 9780980191615
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 105