Riding By: Collected Poems

Author: Gerald Harris ISBN 978-1-62137-960-7 (eBook)   BOOK DESCRIPTION This New York poet has been compared, in a Kirkus review, to Walt Whitman, HartCrane and John Asbury. His poems graphically capture images, examine relationships,wrestle with mortality, explore foreign places, express love, toy with romance andprotest Man's inhumanity. The killing of Trayvon Martin in the name of "stand yourground", being lost in Paris, responding to a line-cutter at a Starbucks, describing ahome run as Rilke might have, all of these moments and many more, are dealt withvividly with melancholy, irony or a touch of humor. The throb and hum of the city beatpersistently beneath these poems as does the clacking of the long-gone Third AvenueEl which once traveled above the streets of the poet's youth. There is beauty here andgrit as the city takes away even as it gives.   ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gerald Harris is a semi-retired NYC Criminal Court Judge. Raised in the Bronx his legalcareer has been divided betwe