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Literature & Fiction

A Night in Brooklyn: Poems

A Night in Brooklyn: Poems

D. Nurkseâ€™s deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown, Brooklyn, New York, and a meditation on the selves that were left behind in those indelible places.

Here Nurkse brings alive the particular details that shape a life, in this case unique to the world of Brooklynâ€”a job at the Arnold Grill, â€œtopping off drafts with a paddleâ€ for the truckers who came in; the deaf white alley cat that mysteriously survived the winter on a stoop in Bensonhurst; the narrow bed where young love took place; the wild gardens behind the tenements. His exploration of this almost mythic city past is combined with a sense of the future speeding toward usâ€”the ongoing riddle of time and being in a larger universe.
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Â . . . And she who was driving said,
We know the coming disaster intimately but the present is unknowable.
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Which disaster, I wondered, sexual or geological? But I was shy:
her beauty was like a language she didnâ€™t speak and had never heard.
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From â€œThe Presentâ€
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2016-01-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375712210

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