Fire Island, Bette Davis, reincarnation, the movies, Henry James, the Russian baths, being lonely in public, following strangers, washing a corpse, the FDR Drive and...

Fire Island, Bette Davis, reincarnation, the movies, Henry James, the Russian baths, being lonely in public, following strangers, washing a corpse, the FDR Drive and the racetrack all figure predominantly in Michael Klein's The Talking Day - a talking book of poems that speak to the terrible beauty of the world we live in and the world we live without. "I'm dumb about the world. To me, it always looks haunted" is the first line of the first poem in this book and by the end, that haunting has turned fear into grace.

Author: Michael Klein
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
Published: 01/15/2013
Pages: 70
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d
ISBN: 9781937420277


Award: Triangle Awards - Finalist
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

About the Author
Klein, Michael: - Michael Klein's poetry collections are THE TALKING DAY (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), THEN, WE WERE STILL LIVING (GenPop Books, 2010), a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and 1990 (Provincetown Arts Press, 1993), which tied with James Schuyler to win the award in 1993. His books of prose are Track Conditions (Persea Books, 1997), a memoir, and The End of Being Known (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), essays. He lives in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts.