{"product_id":"elegy-for-my-beat-generation","title":"Elegy for My Beat Generation","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Neeli Cherkovski\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Lithic Press (2018)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eElegy For My Beat Generation\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterful river of lyricism, spilling from one perception into the next. In these odes and elegies Cherkovski pays homage to his aging and gone friends from the heyday of all their lives, contemplates his own dwindling days, and attempts to come to grips with ultimate ends. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Cherkovski:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"\u003e\"From Lithic Press a brave and poignant new book of poems by my friend Neeli Cherkovski. Here are tributes to Corso, Ginsberg, Kerouac, DiPrima and even yours truly. He's a skilled lyricist, a portraitist of mood, where the personal meets the historical.\" –Alan Kaufman, author of \u003cem\u003eJew Boy\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Outlaw Bible of American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"\u003e\"...in the end, what stamps Cherkovski’s poetry as unique is its unbounded lyricism, a lyrical gift easily greater than that of any other poet of his generation.\" –Gerald Nicosia, author of \u003cem\u003eMemory Babe\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHome To War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodland Pattern","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44270290141283,"sku":"9780997501797","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/Elegy-Neeli.jpg?v=1781896644","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/elegy-for-my-beat-generation","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}