Poetry for the after-hours, later than the night. With ""Smoke Rings"", John Pietaro, a writer whose work is impassioned with the literature of rebellion, the heritage of noir and the urbanity downtown, presents his debut chapbook, a terse, dark and sometimes satirical homage to New York at night. ""Smoke Rings"" encompasses the edge of the city's creative tapestry, its free jazz, punk culture, radical verse, bold performance and revolutionary politics casting the vision. Plainly put, here's a collection of works from just beneath the underground. CONTENTS: Haze/5:03AM /Discreet Foundlings of Quiet Places /Blue /Dancing to Incessant June /The People of Night/Impressions /Langston/Sonic Incursion/Robert Quine on the Rocks/The Lonely /Conjured and Cast /Burroughs Inferno/Now's the Time That Wasn't/Chordal Clouds & Whispers /The Late-Night Breakfast Special
Poetry for the after-hours, later than the night. With ""Smoke Rings"", John Pietaro, a writer whose work is impassioned with the literature of rebellion, the heritage of noir and the urbanity downtown, presents his debut chapbook, a terse, dark and sometimes satirical homage to New York at night. ""Smoke Rings"" encompasses the edge of the city's creative tapestry, its free jazz, punk culture, radical verse, bold performance and revolutionary politics casting the vision. Plainly put, here's a collection of works from just beneath the underground. CONTENTS: Haze/5:03AM /Discreet Foundlings of Quiet Places /Blue /Dancing to Incessant June /The People of Night/Impressions /Langston/Sonic Incursion/Robert Quine on the Rocks/The Lonely /Conjured and Cast /Burroughs Inferno/Now's the Time That Wasn't/Chordal Clouds & Whispers /The Late-Night Breakfast Special