Little Heretic

Little Heretic presents one person’s pilgrimage back to the New York of his youth, where the City is seen not for the ghosts of junkies, musicians and ex-lovers that haunt it, but for the spiritual and creative possibility lurking in alleys and parks, and celebrated by street corner buskers and subway graffiti. A twenty-first century poet in New York, this book looks at how in the right light of a Manhattan morning, a pigeon flying across First Avenue just might be one of Rilke’s angels.
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Little Heretic

Little Heretic presents one person’s pilgrimage back to the New York of his youth, where the City is seen not for the ghosts of junkies, musicians and ex-lovers that haunt it, but for the spiritual and creative possibility lurking in alleys and parks, and celebrated by street corner buskers and subway graffiti. A twenty-first century poet in New York, this book looks at how in the right light of a Manhattan morning, a pigeon flying across First Avenue just might be one of Rilke’s angels.
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Little Heretic

Little Heretic

by Gerry LaFemina
Little Heretic

Little Heretic

by Gerry LaFemina

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Little Heretic presents one person’s pilgrimage back to the New York of his youth, where the City is seen not for the ghosts of junkies, musicians and ex-lovers that haunt it, but for the spiritual and creative possibility lurking in alleys and parks, and celebrated by street corner buskers and subway graffiti. A twenty-first century poet in New York, this book looks at how in the right light of a Manhattan morning, a pigeon flying across First Avenue just might be one of Rilke’s angels.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781622880423
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Publication date: 03/04/2014
Pages: 88
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 15 - 18 Years

About the Author


GERRY LaFEMINA is the associate professor of English/Director at the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing in Frostburg, Maryland.

Table of Contents

New Years Day 11

One by One We Vanished 13

A Photograph of St. Marks Place 14

Oh Little Town of Manhattan 15

New York Hardcore 18

On Hearing David Bowie's 'Heroes' 19

Variation on a Theme by Ridley Scott 20

Riding the One Train I Consider the Nature of Time 22

The Formation of Puddles 23

Transience 24

Lady Day was Born Elenora Fagan 27

Summer Wind 28

No David Copperfield 30

On a Local Station Watching an Express Train Pass 31

Second Avenue Station, Heading Home 32

An Image of Godliness 33

Transubstantiation 34

Quantum Mechanics 35

Morning Interrogatory 36

The Despair Artist 37

Uptown Bus 38

Non-Duality 39

Parable 41

Smaller Miracles 42

Friday Night, First Avenue 43

February 45

After Reading Psalms I Hear How New York Rain Imitates Basho 49

Another Blues in E Minor 51

Looking for Shénnóng 52

Dim Sum 53

Fiefdom 54

Desire & Misfortune 56

The Inherent Shortcomings of Metaphor 57

Now 58

Super Heroes; or On Why I Liked Comic Books 59

A Short Treatise on Anarchy 61

Recession 62

Bright Windows 63

Feast of the Epiphany 64

Some Thoughts after Walking Past St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church 66

The Temporary World 67

Red Maple (Acer rubrum) 68

Any Penance that Might Have Saved Me 69

Psalm 72

The Feast of St. Anthony 74

Spring in the New Century 75

Papyrus 76

After Visiting the New York Transit Museum 78

Coney Island Baby 79

The Record Store Cat 84

The Poet at 37 85

Daybreak 89

Notes 90

Acknowledgments 91

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