Detroit's Got Soul

She could see to the horizon to where the Brooklyn and Manhattanbridges formed necklaces.” So writes Susan Margulies Kalish in The Cerebral Jukebox her first collection of poetry. With an astute eye for thetelling detail she evokes her childhood in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.Stuyvesant Town a middle-class housing development of a hundredlook-alike buildings became her mid-city haven during the baby boomthat followed World War II.Her favorite jukebox hits of the Fifties filter through free verse vignettesrecalling a time of innocence while the songs of the Sixties echo theturbulence of her coming of age in a time of great change. In succeedingsections she celebrates family travel and historical connection bringingthe book’s jukebox journey full circle.Complete with the author’s illustrations that eloquently weave togetherfamily and neighborhood photographs throughout The Cerebral Jukeboxshares unforgettable recollections from one woman’s life as she maturesfrom childhood to adulthood in the greatest city in the world.