5th Avenue Overhead

Personal memoir of love and poetry activism over the course of a lifetime.

Personal Memoir of a life as a poet. The stories reflect the jobs held and the adventures doing them. I am the Studs Turkle of poetry.

Bob Rosenthal (b. 1950); Straight Around Allen: on the business of being Allen Ginsberg, Beatdom Books 2018, Cleaning Up New York, published Little Book Room, 2016. Books of poetry: Morning Poems, Lies About the Flesh, Rude Awakenings, Viburnum, and Eleven Psalms; personal prose: Cleaning Up New York (1976); co-writer, The Cause of Gravity, the Whore of the Alpines, Bicentennial Suicide, Clear The Range.