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City Woman
Linda Lerner's City Woman bristles with all the discordant energy, jump-cut quickness, gritty urgency, and vibrant color of a great city brought to life on the printed page by a fine poet able to hear, in the midst of the urban throb, the beating of the human heart. —W. D. Ehrhart
Yes, the Ducks Were Real
Poetry. YES, THE DUCKS WERE REAL deals with relationships of all kinds, as well as, what goes into day- to-day survival--things that concern everyone and things everyone can relate to. In these poems Lerner goes from being an observer, as in The Girls from Hell, to focusing on her own life, which she has successfully mythologized in order to reflect on our fast changing times. YES, THE DUCKS WERE REAL is a collection of modern tales that will have you reading and relating and reverberating into your own mind's mythologies.
Takes Guts and Years Sometimes
Poetry. Linda Lerner's latest book, TAKES GUTS AND YEARS SOMETIMES, is a collection of poems dating from the early 80s to the present. An immigrant daughter's courageous search for her identity, her refusal to compromise who she is for a paycheck or for love is viewed in the backdrop of major public events. Upheavals in her personal life are paralleled by those in the larger world. There's the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the subsequent attack in 2001 six blocks from her home. This latter event triggers memories of stories her estranged father told about his escape from Russia. There are the hardships caused by gentrification. The locale is primarily New York City, but it could be any place, where the fault lines of vulnerability in individual lives suddenly give way to tremors outside, and the earth shifts beneath them.
Ding Dong the Bell, Pussy in the Well
Linda Lerner has approached the Nursery Rhyme from a 21st century position and interpreted them through poetry in a whole new way! Along with the illustrations by artist Donna Kerness, Lerner unleashes a new twist on the old, worn-out stories of humpty dumpty, the pussy in the well, Rip Van Winkle, Jack Be Nimble, Friday's Child, Ring Around the Rosy, and London Bridge Is Falling Down. It's a modern take on the ancients.
The Advocate
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
The Bowery and Other Poems
down these metaphysical streets I walk naked & unseenI am an outsider recognizable bymy camera eye stareknapsack and long gypsy skirtwalking down Essex Rivington lowereast side New Yorkhere is anywhere I?m walking downthose silent metaphysical streetsI?ve walked down too many timeslost and alone inNew York New Mexico New Orleans Coloradoforgotten towns across Americadim lit, shadowy, as in somenoir cinema of another timewalked down the exact momentI?ve walked, as nowdown these hot July streetsa smell I inhaled in Williamsburg, the Bronxa noveau poverty bakedinto the bricks and sidewalkvibrating with truck rumble car hornblast children?s screams flyingthru salsa sounds melting hotice cream ye...
Taking the F Train
In Taking the F Train, a New York City poet rides the F Train through the final years of the 20th century into the 21st; both gentrification and technology are rapidly transforming life as she has known it. Her old haunts...cafés, bookstores, diners, are being replaced by luxury co-ops. There are also losses due to illness and aging...those of others as well her own. And it's not OK, she cries out! At the same time, for every push forward into the future, she's witnessing an opposite push back into the past by the so-called leader of the free world. Nothing makes sense to her anymore. There's only what can be salvaged by art...the act of creation.
Linda's Late
Follows, hour by hour, Linda's activities from the time she gets up at seven o'clock in the morning to the time she goes to bed at seven o'clock in the evening.
Rubber Side Down
Poetry. Biker poet? The words don't seem to fit together. But, no so long ago, neither did cowboy poet. Biker poetry was originally meant to be recited and found its way into performance, or slam, poetry, with readings conducted at every major biker rally. Today, the biker poetry movement is alive and spreading quickly in print form, not only in the US, but all around the world.RUBBER SIDE DOWN provides a look inside this movement, not only through the poetry being written by its members, but also through contributions by established poets like Allen Ginsberg, Thom Gunn and Diana Wakoski; essays on the movement's history and evolution; and photography by noted motorcycle photographer Michael Lichter and others.
