Poetry by Eliot Katz
February 1, 1999 6 x 9 176 pages 978-1-56689-079-3
Eliot Katzs poems are exuberant democratic earth-watch, spiced with surreal imaginings, utopian cravings, and activist humor.
In his new collection of poems, Eliot Katz dances with tenacity on the fine line between poetry and politicsengaging in a democratic earthwatch that is spiced with surreal imaginings, utopian cravings, personal discovery, and spirited humor. Employing elements of modernist experimentation, the books longest piece, Liberation Recalled, includes testimony of his mothers WWII concentrations camp experiences interspersed with his own stylistically-varied verses on contemporary social themes. Katz inventively explores questions of historical and intergenerational legacy, psychic reconstruction, and the challenge of building a more humane future.