The Mercer Stands Burning , the groundbreaking collection of poems by John Pietaro , is for New York, as he says in the dedication.
These amazing poems are influenced by Jazz and the Beats - Miles and Coltrane, and the late Steve Dalachinsky as well, for whom he dedicates the poem 5:03 AM.
But Melville is very much alive in these pages, too.
Check out the poem Max of 10th Avenue.
Pietaro ends with The Continuum, and The Mercer Stands Burning.
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