The Late Parade Poems

Adam Fitzgerald "is a born poet whose extraordinary gift for phrasing, music, and verbal invention distinguish him from any young poet I know writing today," writes Mark Strand about the twenty-nine-year-old American newcomer who follows "in the line of Arthur Rimbaud, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashbery" (Maureen McLane). Fitzgerald, whose title poem "carries the primal vision of Hart Crane into a future that does not surrender the young poet's love of the real" (Harold Bloom), has already published in the Boston Review, A Public Space, Conjunctions, and the Brooklyn Rail and has become a poetic lightning rod in the East Village and other avant-garde settings. Here, in The Late Parade, he presents 48 poems that "fire dance around meaning itself" (Boston Review) yet help to redefine the modernist vision for the twenty-first-century with near-demonic displays of sonorous density and manic verbal fertility. This dazzling debut collection will be sure to "cause a commotion" (Tim Donnelly).