The New York Postcard Sonnets

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“With an urban anthropologist's sense of the rich hodgepodge that constitutes a culture, and a pilgrim's sense of discovery and wonderment, Philip Dacey delivers his New York City to us in this enormously appealing series of sonnets he calls postcards. As ever, he demonstrates how form can harness the inchoate, discipline the disparate. Dacey collects the city's language, he limns its neighborhoods, and he does so with wit and elan. If eros can be thought of as life-fulness, these poems are erotic.” Stephen Dunn “In his valentine to New York City, Philip Dacey cheers us with a sharp eye for the offbeat, like the “Dante-ready lost soul” reading an opera score in the subway. Walking, jogging, the poet eavesdrops on snippets of talk. “You can’t pet fish.” “Sometimes a dog’s not having a good day.” Dacey’s New York, rich in one-liners, lovingly celebrates Juilliard’s recitals as well as many writers: Whitman, Lorca, O’Hara, and Stein. Even Eliot makes an appearance, courtesy of a Manhattan doctor. A gift for the painterly glitters in one sonnet, about snowmelt near Lincoln Center, and in another the spotlight swings to Yiddishkeit when Dacey reports on a “Klezmerfest,” managing to rhyme “putz” with “hats” (a first?). This is a delectable book, by turns ingenuous and seasoned, tender and full of zip. The New York Postcard Sonnets is a joy to read.” Colette Inez “Wallace Sevens once deftly placed a glass jar in the woods and by so doing organized the entire state of Tennessee. When the hand of fate sets Phil Dacey down somewhere--often in some unsettling place--he organizes everything about him and then sits there in the middle, glinting with light.” Ted Kooser

Title: The New York Postcard Sonnets
ISBN: 9780978610579
Author: Philip Dacey
Illustrator: lawrence Applebaum
Publisher: Rain Mountain Press
Additional Features:
soft cover / 74 pages / approx size 5.5 x 8.5 / trade
About the Author:
Philip Dacey is the author of ten previous full-length books of poems, the latest Vertebrae Rosaries: 50 Sonnets (Red Dragonfly Press, 2009). He's received three Pushcart Prizes, a Discovery Award from the New York YM-YWHA's Poetry Center, and many fellowships (Fulbright to Yugoslavia, Woodrow Wilson to Stanford, and two from the National Endowment for the Arts), as well as prizes for individual poems from Poetry Northwest, Yankee, Prairie Schooner, Kansas Quarterly, Nebraska Review, and The Ledge. With David Jauss, he co-edited Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (Harper & Row, 1986). Among his books are whole volumes of poems about Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Eakins, and New York City.
Copyright Year:
2007

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