Precisely Now: Poems

A new, impassioned, ultracontemporary collection from "one of our most acute poetic chroniclers" (The New York Times).

The poems of Lawrence Joseph's Precisely Now unspool against the backdrop of a transmogrified Lower Manhattan, one built back after 9/11, yet where buildings on Wall Street remain pockmarked from anarchist bombings of the 1920s. Out on the very tip of the island, where "moods are painted blue on the blue East River," on the streets where Federico Garc