Vincent Katz

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

And Other Poems

Stopping time on the page to discover the poetic moment where past and present are one, Vincent Katz (called a poet of “vibrant cinematic hunger” by Eileen Myles) opens himself to the fleeting beauty of both culture and nature in this stunning gathering of new work. With his painterly eye and disarming concision on the page, Katz opens this book with a powerful image of “all time sequestered in the fold of a daffodil,” setting the stage for an encounter with the immediacy we must embrace to see the world around us with clarity. At the center of this collection are his captivating poems about animals—“The hope in fear / In thrill to run” of the rabbit, the snapping turtle “nestled // Next to brother rock”—as the poems continually engage with the heady passage of days and years, and the promise to honor a life in the here and now, to walk the street with the sense that, “It’s not about buying / But rather about feeling the air.” “Whether in nature, or on a crowded or empty city street, was all a dream?” Katz writes, considering Daffodil. “Surely, there was and is still someone close, and that continues, as animals, despite war, despite incursions, continue. New York is a place of return, where we’re aware of faces and other things; there, or in a field of flowers, in places in the distant past and present, love has some inexorable way of continuing.” These poems evoke the exact scenes that command our daily thoughts, that usher in grace and beauty, with their quietly urgent moral qualities, which, Katz suggests, can shape our days if we allow them to.

Daffodil

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Poems

Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York City-now in paperback.

"I love the vibrant cinematic hunger of this book, its urbanity, yours and mine too." -Eileen Myles

Broadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for Katz's path through these poems.

From Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouses downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title, with its implication that one could give something as large and undefinable as Broadway to a single person, courts an impossibility that generates the possibility of friendship, as well as the largesse Katz wants to find in our civic discourse. In poems such as "Ivanka Skirting" and "This Beautiful Bubble" we encounter his reckoning with a divisive culture that can, he suggests, be healed through our daily acts--through a kind of alert graciousness that also defines his poetry.

In this moving collection, we enter Katz's world, both public and private, and experience poetry as a way of seeing that can change hearts and minds.

Broadway for Paul

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California

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Phillip Lopate

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Delaware

Rudy Burckhardt emigrated from Basel to New York in 1935, hoping for a career in photography. By the 1940s he had begun to create a series of now-classic images of New York and he went on to become a leading artist in the city. This book examines Burckhardt's photographs.

Rudy Burckhardt

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

Linen book pairing 11 aquatint etchings drawn by the artist in January of 2016 in New York City with 11 poems by: Alex Katz, Vincent Katz, John Giorno, Elaine Equi, Ron Padgett, Jennifer Moxley, Ted Greenwald, John Godfrey, Eileen Myles, Carter Ratcliff and Norma Cole. 34 pages; 11 black and white plates; 11 poems; a black and white photograph of Alex Katz by Vivien Bittencourt.

You Smile and the Angels Sing

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