Poetry. "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. "The mysteries of language and feeling Godfrey's poetry simultaneously unravels and creates go beyond the specific city scenes or situations they refer to. The best of his poems are a brilliant blend of lyric vulnerability and hard-edged precision--sensual and intelligent at the same time"--The Village Voice. John Godfrey has published eight books of poetry across 40 years, all spent in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His poems have appeared in such magazines as The Paris Review, The Harris Review, The World, Adventures in Poetry, Sal Mimeo and others. He has taught workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and was a poetry fellow of the General Electric Foundation. He works as a nurse for homebound AIDS patients in the boroughs of New York City.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA
John Godfrey was born in New York in 1945. He has worked and written in New York's east village for more than three decades. Godfrey's recent books include Private Lemonade (Adventures in Poetry, 2003) and Push the Mule (The Figures, 2001). A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University's School of Nursing, Godfrey works as a nurse clinician to AIDS patients in New York City. CITY OF CORNERS is his ninth collection.
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