Shattered Hours

by Gerry LaFemina

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881168093
• ISBN13: 9781881168096
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Red Dancefloor Pr
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

New York Poetry

LaFemina has written a terrif "New York" book--the long poems like the big Avenues of the city interspersed with beautiful happenings on the side streets of the shorter lyric poems

So Cool It Froze My Eyes

These are poems of ska and the city, and love, and all those things and so much more. LaFemina weaves stories between long broken lines-- broken like the lives of the characters he so eloquently re-weaves.

The State of the ART of Poetry!

Mr. Lafemina's book is a true find of modern genious and capacity for beauty. His verses are music and stalagtite wonder. Let us welcome such vates, the true vates of the muses.Sandy

New Master of the Long Poem

This book offers the reader some of the best longer poems written by the generation of poets born in the mid-sixties--"City of Jazz and Punk" the long poem which ends this marvelous and urban collection of powerful narratives and portraits, is a "collaged" series of lyrical notations that weave an ode to New York that echoes Monk, Hart Crane, and Galway Kinnell, as skateboarders circumscribe graffiti and lovers walk holding hands in the rain. If you know what the Brooklyn Bridge looks like an night, if you are searching for words stitched out of youth and the optimistic melancholy of all its hopes, then this work will leave bruises on your heart, etch metaphors into your brain. Every New Yorker should read this book. I bought some with me and left them on the F train for strangers to find. You should keep one, then buy others and do the same.