Poetry. "Here is a quarter century of work from a poet who has patiently teased out the sounds of sense from American speech—overheard on a father-and-son tour of prospective colleges or at a 'scrub-urban birthday barbecue.' To read David Katz's shapely, sonically savvy, poems is to enter with the poet into an ongoing dialogue between contemporary talk and our modern literary past (as Bishop, Crane, Borges, Rushdie, Moore, O'Hara, Stevens, Auden, and Lowell traverse the stage of his poetry in turn), as well as with ancient Jewish culture (as enunciated by Gabirol, Halevi, and the Bible). Katz's CLAIMS OF HOME bestrides the new world and the old, claiming finally an enduring home in the heart"—David Yezzi.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

David M. Katz's poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Notre Dame Review (both print and online),The Cortland Review, and Podium, the online publication of the 92nd Street Y. His first book of poems, The Warrior in the Forest, was published by House of Keys. A journalist and editor, he lives in New York City and is New York Bureau Chief of CFO Publications.