Father Said - Poems

About the author

Hal Sirowitz is an internationally known poet and the author of five books of poetry: Mother Said; My Therapist Said; Before, During and After; Father Said; and Stray Cat Blues. His work has been translated into thirteen languages and published in many anthologies and magazines. He was awarded the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He is also the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. Hal has performed and appeared on MTV’s "Spoken Word Unplugged"; Lollapalooza; Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival; the Helsinki International Poetry Festival; the Jerusalem Conference of Writers and Poets; PBS’s "Poetry Heaven"; NPR’s "All Things Considered"; PBS’s "The United States of Poetry" and "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross. Hal is a retired New York City public school teacher. He lives with his wife, the writer Minter Krotzer, in Philadelphia.

Product details

• Authors: Hal Sirowitz, Sirowitz Hal
• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2004
• EAN: 9781932360271
• ISBN: 978-1-932360-27-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 226 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / American / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets