The Body's Precarious Balance

by Sean Thomas Dougherty and Heather Arak-Kanofsky

Sean Thomas Dougherty has written a stunningly gritty book that leads the reader through the tenements, streets, and playgrounds of Northern New England and Central New York. Dougherty is the poet of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881168425
• ISBN13: 9781881168423
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Red Dancefloor Pr
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

New Jersey Urban

When I first read this novel in 1999, I never knew what a young, up-and-coming Generation, X or Y'er could do to wield the power of poetics in his work. Sean-Thomas Dougherty, whom my mentor Lorna Dee Cervantes recommended me to, is an underlooked prize for anyone looking for something different, yet meaningful in contemporary poetry. His words are performance-based tinging upon the conscioussness of street-slang, hip-hop or rap, but maintaining that elloquence of the "classical," literary tradition of form and diction in post-modern poetry. His "personal," experiences are locked in the contradiction of one who remembers things events, people, etc. merely as a dream, yet to the reader there is no gap in finding a sentimental connections between the speaker and his environment. As I know it, this gentleman is nearing the age of thirty, launches the New-Jersey Literary Journal entitled, "The Red Book Review." His writing is colorful, yet painfully "real," fans of Selby jr, Bukowski, Kerouac, as well as Quincy Troupe or just a fellow Hip-Hop fan, should take note. Dougherty provides a wonderful landscape of a youth in his New Jersey, street setting.