Review by Dan Cuddy | Loch Raven Review

Review by Ashley Wagner | Ligeia Magazine

Interview | Gyroscope Magazine

PRAISE FOR STILL LIFE WITH CITY

“…a dizzying collection teeming with stories, the urge to recount, and restless catalogs of incessant movement. What redemption, what still life he finds, he locates in the city of language.”

—Donna Masini, author of 4:30 Movie

“…a glorious meditation on what it means to be an artist…like watercolor brushed generously across a gleaming sheet of paper.”

—Francesca Bell, author of Bright Stain

My second collection, Still Life with City, is out now with Pski’s Porch Publishing featuring poems about the Velvet Underground playing live in 1969, CBGBs in the heyday of the late 1970s, working in famous – and infamous – New York City bookshops, the aftermath of 9/11, and getting lost looking for Cavafy in Rome. From the seedy seductions of Times Square to the ‘rain-tortured streets’ of the Eternal City, the author escorts his reader through urban mythologies steeped in personal experience. These poems offer glimpses into a lost world, one which is often right before our eyes.

You can purchase the book for $10 by clicking the cover image below.

If you are in Rome, you can find my books at Otherwise Bookshop.

You can read a selection of previously published poems from the book below:

“Open Mic Night” at Ligeia

“New Year’s Morning in Mystic, Connecticut” at BigCityLit

“Still Life with City” at Verse-Virtual

“The King Is Dead” at Poets Reading the News

“Lush Life” at Furious Gazelle

“The Voidoids Play CBGBs, Late ’77” at Ghost City Review