The Parakeets of Brooklyn/Parrocchetti Di Brooklyn

LaFemina's book is the Bordighera Poetry Prize #6, first published in 2005. "What draws me to Gerry LaFemina's poems is how much of the world they contain: Brooklyn streets, race-tracks, Vietnam, a boy's imagined transgressions, family dramas. What is compelling is the tension between the speaker's urge to understand and they mystery that resists explanation - the partial understandings, the misunderstandings of childhood.... listen to how these poems search as they attempt to tease out meaning.[...] LaFemina's poems ripple with erotic desire, the budding sexuality of young boys, the lure of the nape hidden under a woman's hair, the interiority of the boy who'd slid into the sleeve of the dark suit left by his father.[...] It's a gritty and tender gamble." Donna Masini (Bordighera Poetry Prize judge)

Author: Gerry Lafemina
Publisher: Bordighera Press
Published: 01/28/2008
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d
ISBN13: 9781884419676
ISBN10: 1884419674
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

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