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City of Corners
John Godfrey
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Description for City of Corners
Paperback. John Godfrey IS New York, and these poems gaze unflinchingly into the city's dark heart. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
"While others are busy catching their own reflection in the storefront of poetry, [John] Godfrey goes to work on the damage and squalor of the overlooked. His genius rings true."-Peter Gizzi With an enemy like daylight who needs the psychology dime Hips do the work and I cross the world A longtime resident of Manhattan's Lower East Side, John Godfrey works as a registered nurse in New York City, where he cares for homebound AIDS patients in Brooklyn and Queens. City of Corners is his sixth collection of poetry.
"While others are busy catching their own reflection in the storefront of poetry, [John] Godfrey goes to work on the damage and squalor of the overlooked. His genius rings true."-Peter Gizzi With an enemy like daylight who needs the psychology dime Hips do the work and I cross the world A longtime resident of Manhattan's Lower East Side, John Godfrey works as a registered nurse in New York City, where he cares for homebound AIDS patients in Brooklyn and Queens. City of Corners is his sixth collection of poetry.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wave Books United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9781933517315
SKU
V9781933517315
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Ref
99-15
About John Godfrey
John Godfrey was born in northernmost New York State in 1945. While an undergraduate at Princeton University he began publishing poems in mimeo-mags on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he lives to this day. Currently he works with homebound AIDS patients in Brooklyn and Queens.
Reviews for City of Corners
"While others are busy catching their own reflection in the storefront of poetry, Godfrey goes to work on the damage and squalor of the overlooked. His genius rings true." -Peter Gizzi "With affect and intensity to spare packed into these tight structures, Godfrey continues his singular exploration of the surprise encounters the city affords" -Publishers Weekly