The latest in our series of teeny-tiny mini-poetry chapbooks, book 9 in the Pocket Protector series is a telling of veteran poet A.D. Winans' life, spanning many years of observing the world and dissecting the streets of San Francisco. This collection runs the gamut of A.D.'s life, from war memories and military life in Panama; to Jazz and the roots of American music; to random worldly events, such as the United airplane crash of July 1989. Many poems deal with the revelations of death, reflections of the past, and coming to terms with getting older, approaching 68, then 70, then 72, weaving the tales of those years and what comes with them. A.D. is also an expert at catching the feelings of San Francisco, writing about the streets he loves, the people who inhabit them, the clashing backgrounds of so many cultures meeting together in one place, from the fighting of street gangs to the old Italians of Aquatic Park to the yuppies in North Beach. A.D. is truly the voice of this fine city and paints it with a rollercoaster blend of poetic romanticism and brutal realism. A must-have for your collection! Copies can now be purchased online; or through the mail for $3 (plus $2 US shipping; $3 out-of-US shipping) via cash, check, or money order made out to Alternating Current, PO Box 398058, Cambridge MA 02139 USA; or via PayPal with the email address alt.current@gmail.com. All authors on our press receive royalties for each copy sold, and each purchase comes with a free random book from the archives while we clean house.
This book includes:
Cover art:
from Dream From Mona Lisa by Zlatko Krstevski
Poems by A. D. Winans:
ON MY WAY TO BECOMING A MAN
PANAMA MEMORIES
PANAMA TEN
CITY POET
SAN FRANCISCO STREETS
CITY HAPPENINGS
NORTH BEACH YUPPIE BAR
DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO
MIDNIGHT POEM
GOING BACK IN TIME
68
APPROACHING 70
UNTITLED
71 Going On 72
WORDS
DEATH ON THE MIND
THE OLD ITALIANS OF AQUATIC PARK
WINTER POEM
BLUE CAFE
SUNDAY MORNING BLUES
UNITED AIRPLANE CRASH IN IOWA, July 1989.
LETTING GO
AUDIENCE OF ONE
POEM FOR CHARLIE MINGUS
JAZZ IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE
FOR LOUIS ARMSTRONG
OLD WARRIOR OF NORTH BEACH
ROAD RAGE
WINDING DOWN THE HOURS
HOW I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED
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