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After the War for Independence
Gerry LaFemina is not so much a presence in contemporary poetry as a blur of movement, a quick phrase of enlightenment, a dharma bum of punk and junk. He watches nuns getting drunk in a bar, hears Leonard Cohen on the juke, drinks the blaze of light in every glass. Like Whitman, who inspired both Kinnell and Kerouac, LaFemina understands the body's demands, "Its sweat, toils, & passions. It's holy vigor." LaFemina rides the rapids of contemporary America: pain and ecstasy, ruin and treasure, angels and vultures, half-moon like a half-eaten cookie are confused in a cascade of feeling, an elegy for wild love and boundless grief. -Michael Simms "What is it about the past / that it seems to want...
The Window Facing Winter
Poetry. "In THE WINDOW FACING WINTER, the urgency of the beautiful andsometimes murderous urban landscape, set alongside the seductive, intricateoasis of the Japanese garden, renders possible a vision into 'sliver ofthe absolute.' With unflinching accuracy, LaFemina delivers a sacred, ifmomentary, world, laying bare its essential loneliness, its obstinatebeauty" --Robin Behn.
Pursuit
It's CNF (Creative Nonfiction). Like the Stones' Exile on Main Street, it's a hodge-podge: memoir, philosophy, lit crit, pop culture, history, and reflection. Gerry calls it a meditation. It really is an essay in the French way of being a trial or an experiment.
Vanishing Horizon
Poetry. "VANISHING HORIZON is full of gritty and graceful intelligence. Consistently and sumptuously detailed, these poems amount to a kind of landscape of the soul, that aspect of self that runs the gauntlet—weathers, wearies, kneels—then grins and keeps on. It's hard to make a way in this world, to see clearly without coming to deep despair. This book is good light"—Tim Seibles.
Baby Steps in Doomsday Prepping
"Anyone in the mood to be enchanted by a collection of prose poems that celebrate the quotidian, the commonplace, the ordinary things of this world-those "dumb beautiful messengers," as Walt Whitman famously referred to them in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"? Then you best pick up a copy of Gerry LaFemina's book Baby Steps in Doomsday Prepping.... [LaFemina offers a] kind of precision with language-making a "place" into a "thing" and conveying its feel, look, and impression on the soul with such searing clarity.... [his poems] enchant the senses and succeed in stopping time . . . so that we might examine the things of this world with love and intelligence, so that we might hear them speak to us again"--
Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist
Poetry. Perhaps it is best to picture this book as a gallery space, for in NOTES FOR THE NOVICE VENTRILOQUIST, Gerry LaFemina curates an exhibit of the curious and quirky. Surrealist art, big foot, magic shows, mythological creatures, love in all its manifestations hang side by side on these pages. Each prose poem is a painted canvas in which the real and what-may-be-real are framed together. Sometimes laugh-til-you-cry funny, sometimes heartbreaking, always fantastic in the truest sense, these modern fables posit the endless possibilities of both the imagination and the ordinary world. '"What joy. What uncompromised and uncomplicated pleasure without the pretense of the huzzah, ' Lafemina s...
The Pursuit of Happiness
A hodge-podge: memoir, philosophy, lit crit, pop culture, history, and reflection--a meditation. It really is an essay in the French way of being an experiment.
Little Heretic
Little Heretic presents one person’s pilgrimage back to the New York of his youth, where the City is seen not for the ghosts of junkies, musicians and ex-lovers that haunt it, but for the spiritual and creative possibility lurking in alleys and parks, and celebrated by street corner buskers and subway graffiti. A twenty-first century poet in New York, this book looks at how in the right light of a Manhattan morning, a pigeon flying across First Avenue just might be one of Rilke’s angels.
The Parakeets of Brooklyn
LaFemina's poems ripple with erotic desire, the budding sexuality of young boys, the lure of the nape hidden under a woman's hair, the interiority of the boy who'd slid into the sleeve of the dark suit left by his father. --Donna Masini, Bordighera Poetry Prize judge.
Clash by Night
First in the Lo-fi Poetry Series, CLASH BY NIGHT takes inspiration from The Clash's seminal album 1979 album, London Calling. Forty poets contributed to the volume covering each of 19 tracks plus "Liner Notes" sections of poems that reflect on the power of the album as a whole. This eclectic range of verse-scholarly, heartfelt, bombastic-transports readers back to their own age of rebellion, whether that happened on the banks of the Thames or the East River, in a small town or on the wide open plains. Lo-fi Poetry: Poets cover your record collection.
