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    Heroes and Householders
    Heroes and Householders
    Heroes and Householders
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    Heroes and Householders

    By Steve Turtell

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    HEROES AND HOUSEHOLDERS pays tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Edward Field, Joan Larkin, and James Schuyler, and documents the life of an ordinary, everyday householder in poems critic Marjorie Perloff calls "charming and subtle."

    Praise for Steve Turtell

    His poems are shaped with an economy, with a supple control, that recalls the lyrics of W.B. Yeats -- perfectly solid and down to earth, yet floating with a lyric ease. This is an impressive collection.

    Edward Field

    Steve Turtells poems are refreshingly direct and unpretentious. Im moved by their generous humanity, their plainspoken, hard-won truths, and the poets deep relishing of his experiences, desired or not. His uncommon craft makes it sound almost simple.

    Joan Larkin

    Steve Turtell's poetic voice is at once funny, tender, and tough-minded. His verse is lyrical, his subjects both social and sexual. His intelligence is grounded by a frank and warm-heartedly humane vision, and his eye is uncannily perceptive and true.

    Kate Christensen

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 9, 2012
    ISBN9781475913576
    Heroes and Householders
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    Steve Turtell

    STEVE TURTELL was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York City. He was Director of Public programs at the Museum of the City of New York, the South-Street Seaport Museum, and the New-York Historical Society. His 2001 chapbook, Letter to Frank O'Hara was the 2010 winner of the Rebound Chapbook Prize given by Seven Kitchens Press and was reissued with an introduction by Joan Larkin in 2011. His work has been published in numerous periodicals and the anthologies Blood And Tears: Poems For Matthew Shepard (Painted Leaf Press, 1999), This New Breed: Bad Boys, Gents And Barbarians II, (Windstorm Creative, 2001), and collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets On Faith, Religion & Spirituality, (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011). Visit his website at Steveturtell.com.

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      Heroes and Householders - Steve Turtell

      HEROES

      AND

      HOUSEHOLDERS

      STEVE TURTELL

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      Heroes and Householders

      Copyright © 2008, 2012 by Steve Turtell.

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      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Heroes and Householders

      Sleeping and Dreaming Together

      Letter to Frank O’Hara

      New York City Streetscape

      Late April, Sunday Morning

      In Praise of Concrete

      Poor

      Basic Etiquette

      Four Landscapes

      Home Economics

      St. Francis’ Soliloquy

      The Sons and Daughters of

      Adam and Eve

      Orphan

      Glasswork

      Stephen The Scrivener

      Depression

      Apprenticeship

      Queer

      A Prayer

      Dan’s Dream

      Nietzsche’s Test

      Songs Of My Self

      I Am Not Insane

      Cheering Myself Up

      You

      Coffee At The Beach

      Chimera

      The Adventures of Miss Real

      and Suzy Goodvibes

      Days of 1972

      Days of 2007

      Fear

      The Ant

      Sparrow Snow Chorus

      Morton Street Pier, 1995

      Paralysis

      How to Write A Sentimental Poem

      12-Step Meeting

      Connecticut Muffin Shop, Wednesday September 22, 10:30am

      In the Garden

      Reply

      Poem in Four Questions—Written after Making Love to One Man While Thinking of Another

      Untitled No. 1

      The Substance Of Joy

      One Portion of Love

      Pears

      ALSO BY STEVE TURTELL

      Letter to Frank O’Hara and other poems

      (Winner of the 2010 Rebound Prize from Seven Kitchens Press)

      In Memoriam

      richard roland turtell

      January 30, 1925—November 5, 2000

      anna grace glover turtell

      August 7, 1928-September 7, 2005

      Acknowledgments

      The following poems, some in slightly altered form, have appeared in the following publications:

      Apprenticeship—Brooklyn Review 14, (1997)

      Letter to Frank O’Hara, Morton Street Pier, 1995—Bay Windows, (1998)

      Pears—Brooklyn Review 15, (1998)

      Queer—Blood and Tears, Poems for Matthew Shepard, Painted Leaf Press (1999)

      Adventures of Miss Real and Suzy Goodvibes, Reply, In the Garden, Nietzsche’s Test, Fear, Basic Etiquette, Dried Herbs, Dan’s Dream—Letter to Frank O’Hara, P&Q Press chapbook (2000)

      Heroes and Householders—James White Review, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Fall 2000)

      Poor, Glasswork—James White Review, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Fall 2002)

      A Prayer—Bloom, Vol. I, Issue 1. (2004)

      Letter to Frank O’Hara, The Adventures of Miss Real and Suzy Goodvibes, Fear, Basic Etiquette, Pears, in This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys & Barbarians 2 (Rudy Kikel ed.). Windstorm Creative Limited, Port Orchard WA. (2004)

      You—Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Fall/Winter 2005

      In Praise of Concrete—Tears in the Fence, Summer 2005, Number 41

      Cheering Myself Up—Bloom, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (2006)

      My deepest gratitude to poets Jan Clausen, Beatrice Gates, Elena Georgiou, Joan Larkin, and Griffin Hansbury—the beloved

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