"In poems that are in turn part Frank OHara, part Woody Allen and part Frank Sinatra, George Guida gives us a book that celebrates love and New York.Unabashed and joyously unapologetic in its romanticism, New York and Other Lovers builds a cityscape of poems where we may all fall head over heels."Gerry LaFemina, author of The Story of Ash, Vanishing Horizons and Composing Poetry A Guide to Writing Poetry and Thinking Lyrically"New York and Other Lovers gives us what the title promises and more its a love letter to NYC and its residents, past and present, with all their flaws and foibles. Its a book only a New Yorker could write, someone intimate with the subways, streets, and smells. In the tradition of Ginsburg and OHara (theres a poem dedicated to each of them in the collection), Guidas universe is vast and varied. From unrequited and lost lovers to the collapsed Twin Towers, Guidas poems work an alchemy like Prousts madeleine to conjure all that haunts us. With empathy, imagination, and wit, he reminds us that we "once had a home."Jennifer Franklin, author of No Small Gift and Looming"Sometimes they lurch, sometimes they bop. But George Guidas New York poems never stop moving, never give up the restless, relentless pace that is the city. Even when they find a bench, a lover to sing or talk to, the frenetic undertow is everpresent, the heart humming a love song under the bridge, the current taking it uptown and down, and crosstown, where the poet hangs with those whose...

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