The Stoop - by Jeff Saperstein (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Moving from childhood to retirement, "The Stoop" covers a wide range of subject matter. Several poems explore growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s and 1960s, which include painful and humorous memories. Many poems reflect on cinematic, literary, and artistic works which have made a lasting impact on the writer. The final section engages with some contemporary issues the author navigates as he deals with aging and retirement. The collection includes a poem ("The Minimalist") that won first place in the Common Ground Review </em> annual poetry contest (2011).</p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>These vivid poems, often with surprising twists, invite us to feel the "pebbled brick" of the stoop bite into the thighs of this young boy growing up in Brooklyn discovering his family's Jewish heritage; invite us to explore his childhood memories and those memories which disappeared as he grew; invite us to see the influence of poems, movies, and books, and how his understanding of the characters and of their struggles grew in him; invite us to smile as he becomes the retiree who is not out there doing what most his age are drawn to. At each stage mysteries are revealed, as we learn the way he does, and mostly doesn't, fit the usual molds.</p><p><strong>-Chelsea Adams</strong>, author of the poetry chapbooks <em>At Last Light</em> and <em>Looking for a Landing</em>, and the novel <em>Organic Matter</em></p><p><br></p><p>Fine poetry must be especially evocative and<strong> </strong>Jeff Saperstein's poems resonate with finely crafted imagery, from a youth growing up in Brooklyn through a sensitive man facing the approach of seventy. Jeff displays an intimacy with classical music, with film, with world history, with literature, with life. His powerful words allow the reader to glimpse the core of poetry, the ability to create music out of the mundane. To enter Jeff's world is to understand how a careful and caring observer can turn subjects such as an uncle who was in a concentration camp and his father's World War II journal into richly insightful verse. During this strange time in American history, I took great comfort in the exceptional artistry of Jeff Saperstein.</p><p><strong>-Justin Askins </strong>is a Professor of English at Radford University. His volume <em>The Legendary Neversink</em> was published by Skyhorse Press in 2007 and his chapbook <em>Changing Terrain</em> was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011</p><p><br></p><br>
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