Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. It makes sense that one of the best poets ever to come out of Los Angeles would be a fine character actor like Harry Northup. Northup is the poet laureate of east Hollywood - of streets like Normandie and Mariposa and Fountain. His poems are lit by flourescent street lamps and TV screens glowing from apartment-house windows. I don't care what anybody says about Charles Bukowski. Quiet, clear-eyed, Northup is like a spy, sitting in the back of the No. 1 bus, writing it all down - Lewis MacAdams, L.A. Weekly. [I]t's my life to be a poetry bookworm, a movie nut, a tv addict/ it's my life to have worked as an actor in some good films/ it's my life to say it's rare and honorable even though I have/ not made a lot of money: I have made a living as an actor for/ 25 years and this emptiness is that I have not worked in a movie/ for 10 months/ it's my life to love my wife, my son, poetry and movies - from it's my life then.
