gerry lafemina is a prose poem genius-- the poems are wild, footloose and fancy free yet filled with rhythm and emotion. i loved the wildness of the poems. i loved there energy. i especially loved "Early Experiments in Ingesting Fire" and "My Cat's Nightmares." Wow.

These are poems of ska and the city, and love, and all those things and so much more. LaFemina weaves stories between long broken lines-- broken like the lives of the characters he so eloquently re-weaves.

LaFemina has written a terrif "New York" book--the long poems like the big Avenues of the city interspersed with beautiful happenings on the side streets of the shorter lyric poems

Mr. Lafemina's book is a true find of modern genious and capacity for beauty. His verses are music and stalagtite wonder. Let us welcome such vates, the true vates of the muses.

Sandy