Regular Haunts
New and Previous Poems
by Gerald Costanzo
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Pub Date 1 Mar 2018 | Archive Date 14 Feb 2018
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Description
Costanzo evokes a sense of having arrived on the scene too late, of having missed the heyday of American innocence and possibility, and now—in the present—is forced to live with diminished experience. He mourns a culture where genuine emotion cannot be found but where its semblance can be endlessly marketed. Regular Haunts is a retrospective collection of Costanzo’s work that also includes nearly thirty new poems.
Advance Praise
“Costanzo is a grief-ridden observer of the kulchur. He reminds us of what we had, what we lost, perhaps what we never knew— and he does it in a mature, wise, lovely cadence. He is smart yet humble, full of pity for all of us, full of amazement. ‘When I first heard about America,’ he says, ‘it was already too late.’ He is one of our prophets.”—Gerald Stern
“This is truly poetry in the American grain. Costanzo looks unflinchingly at our totems, artifacts, and folkways and sets them down just as they are, with a deadly but affectionate irony.”—Carolyn Kizer
“Costanzo’s wit and satire and vision of the grotesque world of America get to the center of much of the madness of our culture.”—Peter Balakian
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781496205865 |
| PRICE | US$19.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 144 |
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Featured Reviews
Adam D, Librarian
A beautiful collection of poetry. I'll be looking for more from this author.
Shai M, Reviewer
There are some poems in this anthology that I like: Memory and Loss; The Lives They Lead; Stories; Minnie's Death; Braille; The Man Who Invented Last Vegas; Bournehurst-on-the-Canal; Report From The Past; and The Meeting. The poems in this collection are not the usual or contemporary ones that you can read from best-selling poets famous that millennials enjoy today. But if only readers could try to be a little more perceptive, they could discern these poems of Gerald Constanzo.
