Publisher's Synopsis
"The range of this collection is immense; from narrative and portrait to introspective lyric, these poems feel as relevant today as they did at the time of their original publication. Gold's voice, full of the subtle wit and wry humor of the streets, makes readers feel as if someone is just pulling up a barstool and saying over a tall cold one, let me tell you a story. These poems see clearly and speak the honest language of everyday. Their distinctive energy derives from Gold's gutsy approach and from his surprising and delighting images. Gold's poems have the dual good sense of lacking pretension and of carrying evocative pictures of the life energy in his city of Working Vocabulary"--.
