Words on the Street: Poems

North Adams. 2016. September 2016. Tupelo Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781936797806. 70 pages. paperback. keywords: American Literature Poetry Women. DESCRIPTION - Words on the Street is set in the center of a mystery. An infant is abducted and seven symbolic figures play their metaphoric fiddles while humanity is plagued by chronic threat, insecurity, and confusion. This is not a book for the faint of heart. It is to be read at the peril of complacency. It situates the reader in a landscape choked with graffiti, teeming with hearsay and falsehood. Human existence roils with questions about artifice and reality; the absurd and the comic; good and evil; the knowable and the unknowable. Above all, the words on the street, namely Anna Rabinowitz's words, pave the street we all inhabit, speaking from the primal core of the human predicament: the conundrum between two whys. Anna Rabinowitz at her highest, boldest register. ' - Timothy Donnelly. inventory #46691.