Two poems about New York City in the Bad Old Days of the 1970s.

I got a year’s service through Bublish and so far am really liking the experience of creating book bubbles–integrated samples from some of my books with my commentary. It allows me to bring context to readers that they would otherwise not know that allows the work to be seen from a different perspective. Two of the “book bubbles” I posted today are from my first book of poems, Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems. Central Park and The Subway were both written around the same time by me when in m...