Riding By: Collected Poems

This New York poet has been compared, in a Kirkus review, to Walt Whitman, Hart
Crane and John Asbury. His poems graphically capture images, examine relationships,
wrestle with mortality, explore foreign places, express love, toy with romance and
protest Man's inhumanity. The killing of Trayvon Martin in the name of "stand your
ground", being lost in Paris, responding to a line-cutter at a Starbucks, describing a
home run as Rilke might have, all of these moments and many more, are dealt with
vividly with melancholy, irony or a touch of humor. The throb and hum of the city beat
persistently beneath these poems as does the clacking of the long-gone Third Avenue
El which once traveled above the streets of the poet's youth. There is beauty here and
grit as the city takes away even as it gives.