PURE ARTIFACTS OF EXISTENCE
Michael Sobsey
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$14.95
Size: 5" x 8"
Binding: Perfect Bound
ISBN: 9798890902450
Self-taught poet Michael Sobsey has been perfecting his poetry for over fifty years now. You will find a lineage for his work in the singer-songwriter lyrics of the Sixties and all their antecedents: the Beats, the Surrealists, and the British Romantics. Alternating between verse poems and poems in prose, the author gives a lucid account of life on the edges of New York City. One facet that Sobsey seeks to capture and preserve is the wit and humor which we mortals use to laugh off the sometimes spooky human condition. He cites Bob Dylan, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Brautigan, Max Jacob, and notably Philip Lamantia, the San Francisco surrealist. Sobsey's father, the late Chester Sobsey, was a jo ...