Description
Poetry. "Andrew Kaufman's THE COMPLETE CINNAMON BAY SONNETS bear powerful witness to 'the last loneliness' of the lost, the forsaken, the outcast, the humiliated, the downtrodden. Divided between the almost paradisiacal Virgin Islands and a New York City Central Booking cell, the poet offers his nightmare flashbacks/angelic visions. 'Swimming in wonder,' deafened by 'the screaming sirens of pure pain,' he evokes 'the intifada of the heart.' 'Yo! Professor,' his cellmates implore him, 'We're all sad. Tell us a poem.' Echoing the Psalmist's 'How can I sing the Lord's song in a strange land?' with brave urgency he responds: 'I am here—and writing. Please listen.'"—L.S. Asekoff
Author Bio
Andrew Kaufman's books include Earth's Ends, winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize, The Cinnamon Bay Sonnets, winner of the Center for Book Arts book award, Both Sides of the Niger (Spuyten Duyvil Press), and the COMPLETE CINNAMON BAY SONNETS (Rain Mountain Press). The time he spent in Rwanda was made possible in part by an NEA grant. He has taught literature and writing at a number of colleges and universities, and resides in New York City.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA