Calls from the Outside World

by Robert Hershon

Poetry. "Bob Hershon's unsentimental eye for the touchingly odd, the amusingly odd, and the odd that needs correcting because it represents an important failure on the part of a person or a society is everywhere present in this terrific new book. Hershon is the Master of Brooklyn, Baseball, The Movies, Childhood, Restaurants, European Travel, and a lot besides. These funny, trenchant poems both enrich and ennoble our daily lives" - Charles North.

77 pages, Paperback

First published January 30, 2006

About the author

Robert Hershon, born and raised in Brooklyn, is a poet and the author of twelve books. His most recent book is Calls from the Outside World.

He has published twelve books of poetry. Most recently, Into the Punch Line: Poems 1984-1994 (1994), The German Lunatic (2000), and Calls from the Outside World (2006). His work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, the World, Michigan Quarterly, Ploughshares, and The Nation, among many others.

He is also the recipient of various awards, including two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He works as the executive director of the Print Center and as a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press and Hanging Loose magazine in Brooklyn, NY. He has edited various collections, including Smart Like Me and Shooting the Rat, collections of High School writing.

He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife Donna Brook.

Reviews

[Keith Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I write this, Hershon is well into his eighties, still writing and publishing and editing Hanging Loose. But this is a book from almost 15 years ago, when he was a comparatively young man! And it has the flavor of his particular imagination. Here's a thing I wrote about it back then

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