Stickball on 88th Street

by Willis Barnstone

Comic, tragic, colorful, and adventurous, Stickball on 88th Street is a sequence of thirty-four narrative poems that follows its speaker from boyhood to college. It s a memory book, bound with vignettes of school, family life, and the streets of New York City, as well as Maine and Mexico, culminating with a swan dive in Colorado. It reads like a novel or memoir, with characters, setting, and plot.

Stickball employs an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597094773
• ISBN13: 9781597094771
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 9.1"