Unintended Lessons

By Luke Breit

Luke Breit's poems sound with his talking voice, a voice full of compassion, honesty, sensitivity, remembrance, stilled passions and passing life, and somehow all like parts of a novel never written.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936609397
• ISBN13: 9780936609393
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: QED Press
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Norman Mailer on Luke Breit's poetry

"Luke is a rainmaker. Put him in a desert, get him to recite, and clouds will gather...If I could be a poet, I wouldn't mind at all being as good as Luke Breit."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti on "Unintended Lessons"

Luke Breit's poems sound with his talking voice, a voice full of compassion, honesty, sensitivity, remembrance, stilled passions and passing life, and somehow all like parts of a novel never written...

Jack Hirschman on "Unintended Lessons"

"Luke Breit's poems fuse his native New York City -- for him, the heart of friendship and love -- with the California feeling of the better world that we are all in the process of creating. In Breit's works, male and female, members of his personal family and friends, all are equal to one another and yet, through his direct and intimate style, maintain their unique otherness. This is his great contribution. Few poets write with a greater sensitivity to equality. That's why you're going to read a book about the future."

Pushcart Prizewinner Kim Addonizio on "Unintended Lessons"

"Reading this book is like sliding onto the barstool next to Luke Breit where, 'in the dark convessional of a saloon,' he'll tell you his stories -- of parents and children, friends and lovers, of the longing to connect and the ways we sometimes manage it. There's jazz on the jukebox, baseball on TV, and the next round's on Luke."