The Shoe Shine Parlor Poems et al

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: W.R. Rodriguez ISBN: 9781310103322
Publisher: W.R. Rodriguez Publication: October 15, 2014
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: W.R. Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781310103322
Publisher: W.R. Rodriguez
Publication: October 15, 2014
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

These narrative and lyric poems derive from the author's youth in the South Bronx and his work as a bootblack in the family shoe shine parlor during the 1960s.

The first section, “the shoe shine parlor poems,” contains narratives and character sketches of neighborhood personalities: the man who pretended to be a policeman, the golden glove boxer beaten senseless by the police in a case of mistaken identity, the one-eyed heroin addict, the local bully receiving his ironic comeuppance, the seventh son whose luck ran out in the Vietnam War.

The second section, “et al,” is a more lyrical view of the Bronx: a tribute to a goldfish imprisoned in the heel of a woman's platform shoe, Thoreau thrown off a rooftop, a young girl killed while playing in the spray of a fire hydrant, the old accordion player's swan song, a celebration of the weeds which even the Bronx cannot kill.

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These narrative and lyric poems derive from the author's youth in the South Bronx and his work as a bootblack in the family shoe shine parlor during the 1960s.

The first section, “the shoe shine parlor poems,” contains narratives and character sketches of neighborhood personalities: the man who pretended to be a policeman, the golden glove boxer beaten senseless by the police in a case of mistaken identity, the one-eyed heroin addict, the local bully receiving his ironic comeuppance, the seventh son whose luck ran out in the Vietnam War.

The second section, “et al,” is a more lyrical view of the Bronx: a tribute to a goldfish imprisoned in the heel of a woman's platform shoe, Thoreau thrown off a rooftop, a young girl killed while playing in the spray of a fire hydrant, the old accordion player's swan song, a celebration of the weeds which even the Bronx cannot kill.

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