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<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I love the New York that Linda Kleinbub brings to life in her poetry collection </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>COVER CHARGE. </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kleinbub is clear-eyed and unsentimental as any long-term Gothamite must be playing guide and witness to decades of grit glamor and ever-changing scenes. Evocative in her imagery and compelling in her pacing Kleinbub lays out a life in glimpse and shards not like a tour guide with an urge to explain but like a cool older sister who lets you tag along as she gets into all the coolest places. For a debut collection </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cover Charge </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is unusually grounded. This is a book to be savored. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>           -Jason Schneiderman-author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hold Me Tight</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(54 52 53 1)>As publisher of </span><em style=color: rgba(54 52 53 1)>Rimes of The Ancient Mariner Silver Tongued Devil Anthology: Celebrating five years of outstanding East Village poetry fiction memoirs essays storytelling humor and spoken word</em><span style=color: rgba(54 52 53 1)> Linda Kleinbub has not only been around downtown but has embraced the informal savvy-quirky spirit of generosity that is New York. Her first book of poems </span><em style=color: rgba(54 52 53 1)>Cover Charge</em><span style=color: rgba(54 52 53 1)> maps out dues paid under 'purple galaxies' or in wishful gardens where blessings if blurry are bountiful. In the poem Visibility Unclear 'fissures of logic' manage to 'avoid tripping over cats' and in the poem 'Fire Burn- ing' 'Orion's stars drift/ penniless across a/ quartz-colored sky.' Brimming colors mix and match jiggle vitality. Kleinbub lyrical sensual sober has arrived and she's brought with her Pink Trees Press. - Star Black author of </span><em style=color: rgba(54 52 53 1)>The Popular Vote</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><span>���������</span>Here is a poet on the move penning epiphanies as she spins from innocence to experience. Heartbreak jousts with joy. Lovers switch from villainous to valiant. Muse-driven tailspin jewels offer salvation. Lace-textured dialogues with the universe interact with deftly-rendered metaphoric reveries. Inventive and seductive-these poems are written in lighter fluid ... wild with guilt. They're ready for a match. Stand back. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pyromantic</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> on the loose! </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Jeffrey Cyphers Wright author of P</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>arty Everywhere</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(54 52 53 1)><span>������</span>In its imagery its phrasing and its probing of our inner selves </span><em style=color: rgba(54 52 53 1)>Cover Charge </em><span style=color: rgba(54 52 53 1)>is truly impressive. </span><span style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>Only Linda Kleinbub can make the dirt in a vegetable garden filled with eggplants and praying mantises seem seductive. - R. Bremner author of </span><em style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>Hungry Words</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><br></p>