In America's Shoes
Codrescu, Andrei25 USD
Date
1983
Category
Poetry
Description
First Edition. City Lights Books, 1983. In these memoirs, Codrescu recalls his life with irrepressible and uncensored candor. From the bittersweet delights of a fantastic childhood in the ruins of a Transylvanian castle to the horror and ecstasy of re-inventing himself as an American in a new language, this Proustian romp brims with erotic delight and language at high heat. In an age rife with "memoirs" set on grinding dull axes, Codrescu's razor-sharp language is both pitiless and unsparing of his experience.
Excerpt
only new yorkers write
as if they are from new york
and mostly they are not
the ones in california
were wounded elsewhere
when they feel better
or can't afford the rent
they'll go back where
they came from
this is america
you get hurt where you are born
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