Description:
BREAKFAST WITH ALLEN GINSBERG is a collection of fifty short poems, some very funny and others very personal and poignant.
Brief description: Esther Cohen is a writer and poet in New York City. She also teaches and is a cultural activist. Most days she posts a poem at esthercohen.com, She is Executive Director of Bread and Roses, the national non-profit cultural program of New York's union for health care workers. Winner of a Pure Visionary Award for a photographic project she initiated to give cameras and photography lessons to working men and women across the country. Cohen is a storyteller and humorist.
Review Quotes:
- Wry, observant + full of heart. These poems by Esther Cohen carry a tenderness for all the oddities of our mixed up humanity. I found myself torn - wanting to read it right through but also wanting to savor it for a long, slow read. Made me want to call out to a friend Hey! Did you read this one... beautiful work. - Ruth Sergel
- Esther appeared on my doorstop almost 30 years ago for a massage because she found me in a magazine. Or was it for homeopathy? I was in there for both. I don't remember. But I do remember her voice in life, and her voice jumps off every page of BREAKFAST WITH ALLEN GINSBERG. So, I must assume that her life is poetry. These pages read like a refreshing saga of encounters with thoughts, with thoughtful people, or just plain people, with cultures and moments. But most of all, these poems reveal the rhythm, the cadence of inner Esther. And we are all richer for that revelation. Breakfast, anyone? - Lee Noonan