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Foreword Hal Sirowitz xiii
Introduction: Bridge, Subway, Carnival: The Poetry of Brooklyn
In Brooklyn, In Paradise Michael Tyrell Julia Spicher Kasdorf xv
Borough of Churches Julia Spicher Kasdorf xxiv
Exits from Brooklyn Michael Tyrell xxx
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Sun-down Poem 3
Beginnings: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
The Wallam Olum, Book One 13
On Mercenary and Unjust Bailiffs 15
Epitaph for Madam Anna Loockermans 15
The Market Girl 51 16
Greenwood Cemetery 17
These Days 20
A Ditty of Greenpoint 21
The Wallabout Martyrs 22
The Legend of Coney Island, part 1 23
1900-1950
Coney Island 29
Our Camilla 30
from Rhythms, 7 31
Brooklyn Bridge 32
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge 37
I Am... 39
The Ballad of the Children of the Czar 41
Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne) 45
The Bridge 47
God and Messenger 47
Get theGasworks 48
1950s
Salt Water Taffy 51
It Happened on the Fourth Avenue Local, Brooklyn, On My 77th Birthday, March 20, 1955 52
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore 53
24 from A Coney Island of the Mind 55
Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese 56
1960s
National Cold Storage Company 61
Ave Maria 62
The Bridge 64
It is Sticky in the Subway 66
The Men of Sheepshead 67
A Letter From Brooklyn 68
Street 70
The Allegorical Figure of Brooklyn 71
Personal Poem #9 72
Similes 73
[IIO] 73
1970s
Unpaid Bills 77
The Synagogue on Kane Street 78
Moving 79
In the Forties 3 80
Coney Island, from Houdini 81
Cables to Rage Or I've Been Talking on This Street Corner a Hell of a Long Time 82
For Michael Angelo Thompson 84
Backyard 86
Leaping Clear 87
Flatbush Incantation 90
Sharks at the New York Aquarium 92
Dead Morning in Brooklyn Heights 93
1980s
Grand Army Plaza 97
The Jurors 99
Housework 101
The Regulars 103
About Brooklyn 106
Brooklyn College Brain 107
Fire in Luna Park 108
Burial in Cypress Hills 109
From The Brooklyn Bridge 111
Love in Brooklyn 113
The Drowning of the Facts of Life 114
Tempest in Borough Park 117
Flatbush 1980: A State of the Caribbean in Brooklyn 118
Haiti. new york 119
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden 121
Boast 123
Introduction to the Telephone 124
On the Milkboxes 125
Brooklyn Waterfall 127
1990s
Prospect Park 131
Riding the D-Train 132
Soup 133
Crossing Neptune Ave. 136
Yes, Yes, Like Us 137
Mother's Day, Coney Island: Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Home 139
The Future of Patriotic Poems 141
For Walt and the Lion Tamers 142
Getting Out of Where "We Came From 144
Giants in the Earth 145
Halloween Weather (a Suite) 148
The Hyacinth Garden in Brooklyn 151
Authority 153
Prometheus at Coney Island 155
Street Scene 157
On this Earth 159
Dread 160
536 Saratoga Avenue 161
The Fire 163
You Are What You Eat 164
The Unknowable 166
Some Different Kinda Books 168
Brooklyn Bodhisattvas 171
Twenty-first Century
Freud in Brooklyn 175
The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him 177
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden 178
View 179
Brooklyn Aubade 182
Brooklyn Bridge the Other Way 184
Over Brighton 185
Enemies of Time 186
#39 187
The Living End 189
Brooklyn Anchorage 193
From Something I Expected to Be Different 194
Brooklyn Sestina: June, 1975 195
Bushwick: Latex Flat 197
Minnie & Barbara 198
A Garbage Can in Brooklyn Full of Books 200
From "The World at Night" 202
Bones 203
The Wilson Avenue Kings 205
The Widows of Gravesend 206
In Brooklyn 207
Elegy for a Soldier 209
Jack Roosevelt 213
Train to Coney Island 216
Coca-Cola and Coco Frio 217
From Brooklyn Bridge 218
Last Night in Brooklyn 219
Ailanthus 220
Brooklyn 222
Uncle Dugan 224
V. Bridge View 226
A Mosque in Brooklyn 227
Swell of Flame 228
Suburbia 230
Walking through Prospect Park with Suzan 231
West Street 233
The Million Dollar Poem or You Must Change Your Life 234
I'll Have a Manhattan 237
Life Is Not Complicated and Hard, Life Is Simple and Hard 239
Volcano on Grand Street 241
The Old Italian Neighborhood 243
Sunday Cafe 245
Jamaica Bay 247
After We Make Love 248
About the Poets 249
Acknowledgments 273
About the Editors 280
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Add Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, Broken Land is the first anthology to focus exclusively on verse that celebrates Brooklyn. Edited by poets Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell, this collection of 135 notable poems reveals the many cultural, ethnic, aesthetic, and religious tradition, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, Broken Land is the first anthology to focus exclusively on verse that celebrates Brooklyn. Edited by poets Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell, this collection of 135 notable poems reveals the many cultural, ethnic, aesthetic, and religious tradition, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn to your collection on WonderClub |