I Had Every Intention

Poetry. Here is the new, moving and hilarious book of poems from Michael Gottlieb, a key first-gen Language poet. Many of Michael Gottlieb's pieces have been adopted for the stage, including his poem about 9/11, "The Dust," which Ron Silliman named "the first great poetic work to emerge from [that] trauma." American Book Review says MEMOIR AND ESSAY, "does for New York what A Moveable Feast did for Paris." Alan Davies observes, "Michael Gottlieb is a reader of the fortunes of these times, the ones we live in. And he is a teller of those fortunes."