{"product_id":"broadway-for-paul-poems-paperback","title":"Broadway for Paul: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVincent Katz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFriendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I love the vibrant cinematic hunger of this book, its urbanity, yours and mine too.\" --Eileen Myles\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBroadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for Katz's path through these poems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouses downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title, with its implication that one could give something as large and undefinable as Broadway to a single person, courts an impossibility that generates the possibility of friendship, as well as the largesse Katz wants to find in our civic discourse. In poems such as \"Ivanka Skirting\" and \"This Beautiful Bubble\" we encounter his reckoning with a divisive culture that can, he suggests, be healed through our daily acts--through a kind of alert graciousness that also defines his poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this moving collection, we enter Katz's world, both public and private, and experience poetry as a way of seeing that can change hearts and minds.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVINCENT KATZ is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eSouthness \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) and \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and of the book of translations, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), which won a National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eBlack Mountain College: Experiment in Art\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and his writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in publications such as \u003ci\u003eApollo, Art in America, ARTnews, The Brooklyn Rail, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Project Newsletter.\u003c\/i\u003e As curator of the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia: Chelsea, Katz also edited the anthology \u003ci\u003eReadings in Contemporary Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (Dia Art Foundation, 2017). He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766871064864,"sku":"9781524711535","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5ad467e9dc62bf28794b099f135d4d68.webp?v=1780300337","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/broadway-for-paul-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}