My City of Yesterday: A Poem

by John Tessitore

Leaving home, getting lost, returning changed. My City of Yesterday reimagines a traditional narrative for modern times...echoes of Odysseus in the American suburbs. Its flawed hero is an ordinary, middle-aged man sinking "in chaos, in failure, in poetry," only to re-surface later, weakened but wiser.

I read the signs
the way the ancients
read the constellations,

always leading away from here.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CCCQSS3K
• ISBN13: 9798851543821
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"