Down on the Corner [Paperback]

Kevin Fitzpatrick (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0935697020 | ISBN-13: 978-0935697025 | Publication Date: April 1987 | Edition: 1st

Kevin FitzPatrick's poems, in the rhythms of everyday speech, tell of family and community. The urban settings in Down on the Corner are peopled with gas-station attendants, short-order cooks, construction workers, truck drivers, sheriffs, nurses, doctors, corporate executives, shoplifters, unemployed men and women, office workers, an ice cube manufacturer, and sundry others. In a diverse and often conflicting world, he finds love and the prospect of a regenerated humanity.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Down on the Corner is a perfect example of what it means to write with a sense of place. -- Saint Paul Pioneer Press, 5/2/87

Down to earth poetry; absolute reflections. -- Z Miscellaneous, Vol. 2, No. 3, May 1988

FitzPatrick has provided us with the pulse and guts of the urban community. -- Thirteen, Vol. 5, No. 4, July 1987

The precision of a good documentary film. -- Ophelia's Pale Lilies, Vol. 2, Issue 4, 1991

These are public poems, in the best sense. -- North Dakota Quarterly, Spring 1987

Alligator Island
Anniversary
Bicycle Spring
Blood Plasma Center
Body Work
A Box Of Popcorn
Cash For Guns
Characters
The Empty Room
Favorite Recipe
A First Day
For Brenda
Great Ice Cube Company
Hall Monitor
Handicapped
Highland, 1955
Irene's Cafe
Laid Off
The Line Home
The Man At The Wheel
Mittens
Moderate Life
Oedipus Update
Penny Man
Pioneer Cemetery
Prison Camp No. 3, Near Tokyo
Repeat After Me
Saturday Night
Schooner Bar
Shoplifter: 7-eleven
Signs
Sneaking In The State Fair
Standard Operations
Stars, Water, Wind, Time
That Leaves You And Me
Through My Life
Two Cities
Whatever Happened
Where Work Is Scarce
Whipping
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From the Back Cover

I knew there were poets on that Twin Cities journey on the Selby-Lake streetcar I rode four hours a day during the Depression. In these poems, Kevin FitzPatrick, like Rimbaud and Verlaine, evokes how we waited on corners in the cold to cross the great river and saw the streets and alleys and the workers, waiting for transfers to get to work on time. He celebrates the back-yard junk heaps and Irene's cafe, showing the love of our collective journey and the indestructible continuity. He is a wonderful chronicler of the people's journey.
Meridel LeSueur

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Product Details

• Paperback: 63 pages
• Publisher: Midwest Villages & Voices Pubn; 1st edition (April 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935697020
• ISBN-13: 978-0935697025
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,651,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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