Making the skeleton dance
Subtitle: poems and dialogues
By: by Patricia Garfinkel.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: George Braziller
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Schultz, Dutch, 1900 or 1-1935 -- Poetry; Family -- Poetry; Criminals -- Poetry; New York (N.Y.) -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "Making the Skeleton Dance chronicles the disintegration of the author's family under the influence of a family secret. At the heart of this secret is Dutch Schultz, the notorious 1930s New York mobster and Bronx Beer Baron of the prohibition era. Looking back now as an adult, the poet asks the questions of a grown child determined to unravel the family secret that is never discussed but always undeniably present.

This relentless search for the truth unearths another, deeper secret - one that the author had hidden even from herself."--BOOK JACKET.