The Parakeets of Brooklyn/Parrocchetti Di Brooklyn

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Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the English into Italian by Elisa Biagini. Winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize. What draws me to Gerry LaFemina’s poems is how much of the world they contain: Brooklyn streets, race-tracks, Vietnam, a boy’s imagined transgressions, family dramas. What is compelling is the tension between the speaker’s urge to understand and the mystery that resists explanation–the partial understandings, the misunderstandings of childhood…. Public and private collide, intersect, as events and images become more difficult to reconcile, to describe. LaFemina’s poems ripple with erotic desire, the budding sexuality of young boys, the lure of the nape hidden under a woman’s hair, the interiority of the boy who’d slid into the sleeve of the dark suit left by his father. It’s a rich world…a gritty and tender gamble –Donna Masini.