Up Liberty's Skirt: The Poet's Experience In New York City - Softcover

Lupert, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972755543 ISBN 13: 9780972755542

Publisher: Ain't Got No Press, 2001

Synopsis

It was time to visit the big city. Sure, the city I live in is bigger; but that's not important. New York is the BIG CITY...it's certainly taller than Los Angeles. There's a lot to be said for compacting everything onto an island. Feel free to say any of those things. I'm not going to say them for you. Opinions are expensive in these parts. Send me a dollar, and I'll tell you what I think. I like Islands. Brooklyn is not an Island. There is fabulous Mexican food there. The kind of food you wouldn't find on an island. The kind of food I wouldn't expect to find east of Arizona. So meet my trip to New York City. Someone once said to me "Oh you with your books about the places you've been." It's true. New York is a place, and I have been there, and this book is all poems that I wrote there, except for the last two which I wrote in New Jersey, and the first few which I wrote on the way there. But the rest of them in the middle...oh yes, those were written in New York City.

About this title

About the Author:

Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He served for two years as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets, a twenty-three year old non-profit organization which produces a regular reading series and publications out of the San Fernando Valley. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The Los Angeles Times, Chiron Review, Zuzu's Petals, Caffeine Magazine, Blue Satellite and others. He recently edited A Poet’s Haggadah: Passover through the Eyes of Poets anthology and is the author of eleven books: Paris: It’s The Cheese, I Am My Own Orange County, Mowing Fargo, I'm a Jew. Are You?, Stolen Mummies, I’d Like to Bake Your Goods, ­A?Man With No Teeth Serves Us Breakfast (Ain’t Got No Press), Lizard King of the Laundromat, Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town (Inevitable Press), Feeding Holy Cats (Cassowary Press). He has hosted the long running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park since 1994 and is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California. Rick created and maintains the Poetry Super Highway, a major internet resource for poets. (PoetrySuperHighway.com) Currently Rick works as the music teacher and graphic and web designer for Temple Ahavat Shalom in Northridge, CA and for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ain't Got No Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0972755543
• ISBN 13: 9780972755542
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52