Surrender When Leaving Coach
Published on 1. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-1-934909-26-3 (ISBN)
Description
Poetry. "Let me know if this is or isn't ok. Reading the book made me very happy. If it were possible to work 'a dialectical lasagna of grays' into the blurb, I'd do it, but I don't know that I can manage it in a way that serves the p.r. component of jacket copy."--Anselm Berrigan
"I think it is possible to read Joel Lewis as the offspring of some celestial union of the New York School and the Objectivists--all that attention to detail, the wild sense of humor--but I read him myself as following in the tradition of the great New Jersey bards, Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams--that wild sense of humor, all the attention to detail. This is a wonderful, joyous book of poems, but even more important is the vision here of the great push-pull between poetry and life. This is one ride you won't want to stop."--Ron Silliman
"I think it is possible to read Joel Lewis as the offspring of some celestial union of the New York School and the Objectivists--all that attention to detail, the wild sense of humor--but I read him myself as following in the tradition of the great New Jersey bards, Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams--that wild sense of humor, all the attention to detail. This is a wonderful, joyous book of poems, but even more important is the vision here of the great push-pull between poetry and life. This is one ride you won't want to stop."--Ron Silliman
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934909-26-3 (9781934909263)
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Joel Lewis edited Bluestones and Salt Hay, an anthology of New Jersey poets, as well as Reality Prime, the selected poems of Walter Lowenfels, and On the Level Everyday, the selected talks of Ted Berrigan. His own poetry collections include SURRENDER WHEN LEAVING COACH, LEARNING FROM NEW JERSEY, and VERTICAL'S CURRENCY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. A social worker by day, he has taught writing at The Poetry Project, The Writer's Voice, and Rutgers University. He and his wife, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, a cinema professor at Rutgers, live in Hoboken, NJ.