Beat Scrapbook

Poetry. BEAT SCRAPBOOK proves again as Lionel Rolfe wrote in the Huffington Post that he also is a real poet very much in the San Francisco tradition of Ferlinghetti Patchen Rexroth and Ginsberg. BEAT SCRAPBOOK is a remarkable celebration of life and a haunting elegy for family friends and fellow poets. In a truly Beat extension of the great tradition of poetic remembrance Gerald Nicosia homages the people he has loved and admired in his life. These poems take the reader through loss and grief to a hard-fought reconciliation with mortality honoring friendship and passionate affection moving from melancholy to the conferring of blessings with poignant grace notes. Mourning and rapture merge in these fine portraits of lives lived creatively and on the edge. This is a profoundly moving and validating work. It is nothing less than a poetry of life and love over death.--Ian MacFadyen The power and force of the Beat movement in American letters and culture the primary figures the significant works and the far-ranging influence have been examined and extolled by many but in the end there is only Nicosia standing above the rest. As a historian of the heart he is unsurpassed. And now he gives us BEAT SCRAPBOOK this beautiful poetic addendum to it all where he lets his heart speak in one eulogy after another to the many great souls he has known in this journey. What an outpouring of love and recognition!--R.B. Morris