Down On The Corner,Used

Product Description Kevin Fitzpatrick'S Poems, In The Rhythms Of Everyday Speech, Tell Of Family And Community. The Urban Settings In Down On The Corner Are Peopled With Gasstation Attendants, Shortorder Cooks, Construction Workers, Truck Drivers, Sheriffs, Nurses, Doctors, Corporate Executives, Shoplifters, Unemployed Men And Women, Office Workers, An Ice Cube Manufacturer, And Sundry Others. In A Diverse And Often Conflicting World, He Finds Love And The Prospect Of A Regenerated Humanity. Review Down On The Corner Is A Perfect Example Of What It Means To Write With A Sense Of Place. Saint Paul Pioneer Press, 5/2/87Down To Earth Poetry; Absolute Reflections. Z Miscellaneous, Vol. 2, No. 3, May 1988Fitzpatrick Has Provided Us With The Pulse And Guts Of The Urban Community. Thirteen, Vol. 5, No. 4, July 1987The Precision Of A Good Documentary Film. Ophelia'S Pale Lilies, Vol. 2, Issue 4, 1991These Are Public Poems, In The Best Sense. North Dakota Quarterly, Spring 1987Alligator Island Anniversary Bicycle Spring Blood Plasma Center Body Work A Box Of Popcorn Cash For Guns Characters The Empty Room Favorite Recipe A First Day For Brenda Great Ice Cube Company Hall Monitor Handicapped Highland, 1955 Irene'S Cafe Laid Off The Line Home The Man At The Wheel Mittens Moderate Life Oedipus Update Penny Man Pioneer Cemetery Prison Camp No. 3, Near Tokyo Repeat After Me Saturday Night Schooner Bar Shoplifter: 7Eleven Signs Sneaking In The State Fair Standard Operations Stars, Water, Wind, Time That Leaves You And Me Through My Life Two Cities Whatever Happened Where Work Is Scarce Whipping Table Of Poems From Poem Finder From The Back Cover I Knew There Were Poets On That Twin Cities Journey On The Selbylake Streetcar I Rode Four Hours A Day During The Depression. In These Poems, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Like Rimbaud And Verlaine, Evokes How We Waited On Corners In The Cold To Cross The Great River And Saw The Streets And Alleys And The Workers, Waiting For Transfers To Get To Work On Time. He Celebrates The Backyard Junk Heaps And Irene'S Cafe, Showing The Love Of Our Collective Journey And The Indestructible Continuity. He Is A Wonderful Chronicler Of The People'S Journey. Meridel Lesueur About The Author Kevin Fitzpatrick Was Educated At The University Of Minnesota And The College Of Saint Thomas. He Was The Editor Of The Lake Street Review, A Literary Magazine, For Many Years. About His First Book Of Poetry, Down On The Corner, Published By Midwest Villages & Voices, Meridel Lesueur Wrote, 'He Is A Wonderful Chronicler Of The People'S Journey.' Besides Magazines And Newspapers, His Poetry Has Appeared In Anthologies Such As American Voices: Webs Of Diversity (Prentice Hall), Call Down The Moon: Poems Of Music (Margaret K. Mcelderry Books), The Next Parish Over: A Collection Of Irishamerican Writing (New Rivers Press), And Ringing In The Wilderness: Selections From The North Country Anvil (Holy Cow! Press). His Poetry Has Been Heard On 'The Writer'S Almanac' And 'Weekend Edition' Over Minnesota Public Radio And Other Public Radio Stations. End Excerpt. Reprinted By Permission. All Rights Reserved. Irene'S Cafe Irene This Morning Washes Dishes First Then Glances At Customers Like Leftover Beers Her Tattooed Cook Wearing A Ski Jacket Scrambles Eggs While Pouring Coffee In Our Empty Cups Along Her Horseshoe Counter We Are All Silent Churchgoers At The Consecration Waiting For The First Drunk To Enter To Offer Her Marriage So Irene Will Laugh So The Jukebox Will Play So Sunday Will Begin