Vertical's Currency: New and Selected Poems

by Joel Lewis

Poetry. "Joel Lewis has written some of the best jazz poems I've ever read. In VERTICAL'S CURRENCY he gives us all the humor and empathy an ethno-glossary of North Jersey can provide. Imagine Jim Brodey writing prescriptions on Dr. Williams's pad. RX: One 'urine puck' with coffee every 2 hours for the blues, followed by a dip in the Lou Costello Pool. These poems come at you over the counter like an anodyne with eyes.... Use as needed. And often."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188368983X
• ISBN13: 9781883689834
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Talisman House, Publishers
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"