The New Melancholia & Other Poems - Softcover

Malanga, Gerard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937073963 ISBN 13: 9781937073961

Publisher: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2020

Synopsis

Gerard Malanga has always been a keen observer, from his earliest days clutching his first prized Kodak Brownie in the dream-filled Bronx of his boyhood. His sense of wonder is that of a devoted son, seeing the world with fresh eyes, whether focused on the present or the past, on the lines yet to be written or those folded into memory.His words for friends and family both living or long dead are not just mere examinations of his own m mortality, but a questioning look into love and life after life and just where his own poems come from.The poems themselves are portraits and the portraits are poems and part of Malanga will always be that boy he once knew, offering his heart to those brave enough to take it all in. These poems are human, they exist in the world of make-believe and the dreams that live in us still, no matter how much time passes.“I characterize my work as love poetry. I have to love my subjects in order to write about them, to pay homage to them in some way, to renew their lives, again and again. This is the gift of love.”

Edition details

• Publisher: Bottle of Smoke Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1937073963
• ISBN 13: 9781937073961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148