When I Was Last On Cherry Street
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Usual wear. Tight binding and clean pages. Foxing on block but does not extend internally.
A vivid work of autobiographical poetry and memoir, When I Was Last On Cherry Street chronicles Harry Roskolenko's turbulent coming-of-age on the Lower East Side of New York City, painting an intimate portrait of immigrant Jewish life in the early twentieth century. With raw, lyrical intensity, Roskolenko conjures the crowded tenements, street-corner philosophers, and radical political ferment that shaped his restless young mind. The work captures the tension between the Old World traditions of his family and the electric, chaotic promise of American urban life, illustrating how a poet's sensibility is forged in poverty and community. Roskolenko's voice is at once nostalgic and unflinching, rendering a vanished world with the precision of a witness and the passion of a true literary outsider.
Author: Harry Roskolenko
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Stein and Day / Publishers / New York
Genre: Biography
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Usual wear. Tight binding and clean pages. Foxing on block but does not extend internally.
A vivid work of autobiographical poetry and memoir, When I Was Last On Cherry Street chronicles Harry Roskolenko's turbulent coming-of-age on the Lower East Side of New York City, painting an intimate portrait of immigrant Jewish life in the early twentieth century. With raw, lyrical intensity, Roskolenko conjures the crowded tenements, street-corner philosophers, and radical political ferment that shaped his restless young mind. The work captures the tension between the Old World traditions of his family and the electric, chaotic promise of American urban life, illustrating how a poet's sensibility is forged in poverty and community. Roskolenko's voice is at once nostalgic and unflinching, rendering a vanished world with the precision of a witness and the passion of a true literary outsider.