Voices Of The City

by King

• ISBN13: 9781931236423
• ISBN10: 1931236429
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-30
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr

Summary

Poetry. VOICES OF THE CITY is a collection of vibrant poems that take the pulse of the modern city in all its joy and despair, its yearning and celebration. Organized by the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University Newark, in conjunction with Hanging Loose Press, this anthology features work from some of the country's best-known writers side by side with prize-winning poems by talented teenagers. In the words of co-editor Rosamond S. King: "Think of each of these poems as a window onto an urban landscape. From some, you will see a panoramic view of city life, from others a distilled moment. Together, these poem-windows present dozens of perspectives on urban environments."

Table of Contents

Cityscapes
Introduction	p. 7
Inside the city	p. 9
To and from sonnet	p. 11
Jesus turns asphalt into bread	p. 12
Composition #1	p. 14
Johannesburg Jacaranda	p. 15
Still life with white tablecloth	p. 17
The Ristorante San Marco	p. 19
Traffic report : this is Pale Otis in the chopper	p. 21
Stream structure	p. 22
Sonnet for the #6	p. 23
Psalm for distribution	p. 24
Brook Avenue, the Bronx (1998)	p. 25
Headlights	p. 26
Backyards, Brooklyn	p. 27
After the 11th	p. 28
Later	p. 30
Prometheus at Coney Island	p. 31
New York New York	p. 33
On an Acura Integra	p. 34
New York note	p. 35
Lessons	p. 36
The Brooklyn Bridge climbs on bones of bricklayers	p. 37
Hare Krishna haute couture say goodbye to the little yellow building	p. 39
Crossing over	p. 41
People at pay phones	p. 42
Wallington, N.J.	p. 44
Hoboken early Sunday morning	p. 45
Times Square	p. 47
Subway in March, 5:45 pm	p. 48
Urban Cultures
Introduction	p. 49
Drift	p. 51
Examples	p. 52
Praise you Harry Gordon	p. 53
Living alone	p. 55
Letter to a ghetto boy three thousand miles away	p. 56
Loneliness is	p. 58
My mother cooking squash in the kitchen	p. 59
Letter from New York	p. 61
Room temperature, a more personal moraine	p. 62
Red pens	p. 64
The dinner party	p. 65
Jazz fan looks back	p. 66
Keys to the city	p. 67
3 day New York blues	p. 69
Tory sitting on a couch in a coffee shop on the corner of Ninth Street and Avenue A	p. 70
Love and hate	p. 72
Fourteen	p. 73
Incisors of dawn	p. 74
January in Detroit or search for tomorrow starring Ken and Ann	p. 75
The real New Yorkers	p. 78
Can odor pollution make you sick?	p. 79
Building a staircase by hand	p. 80
Oral history	p. 82
Chemists	p. 83
All shook up	p. 84
What I burned	p. 85
Outing Iranians	p. 86
Bobback Duke	p. 87
Passing	p. 88
Things (for an Indian) to do in New York (City)	p. 89
Friendship	p. 94
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