The Narrows
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: October 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781884800597
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Poetry; American - General; Poetry / General; General
First sentence: The way Lanning painted it Benton, Rivera-bright panels on which the laborers huddle, shirtless, their flexed arms bearing the full weight of the rail.
Description: Coming of age in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge, these poems explore what it is to be an Irish American Catholic; a dutiful son of hard drinking, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tragic parents; a son of Brooklyn; and too, deeply rooted to the country of his ancestors, Ireland. Dark, funny, and sometimes troubling, these poems, always accessible, track a life well lived and felt.