66 for Starters

Poetry. "In these delightful and energetic lyrics, Serge Gavronsky shows himself to be the master of the everyday in all its pleasures and horrors. These poems are sardonic, witty-sometimes even nasty-in their perceptions of life "on the front" in the modern city. Best of all, the poet doesn't spare himself: he is clear-eyed and disillusioned-an expert at dissecting in spare verse forms both the memories of a troubled past and a "fondness for particularities"-Marjorie Perloff.