O
Poesy Romance Unmasked
by
Gerard Sarnat
My
wife, who once
was
lost to another
man
gave
me L.Cohen’s
82
years’ ordinary
notebooks
which
read dreary like they
shouldn’t
see the light of
day.
But
underneath all that
chaff,
I can begin to
winnow
then
find what would become
Suzanne
and Hallelujah
lucencies.
Brother
Leonard’s determined
task
to dress kōans for
success
was
to find paths that
dance
us to end of
love.
Gerard
Sarnat won
the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize, has
been nominated for Pushcarts and authored four collections: HOMELESS
CHRONICLES
(2010), Disputes
(2012), 17s (2014),
and Melting The Ice King
(2016), which included work published by Oberlin, Brown, Columbia,
Johns Hopkins and in Gargoyle, American Journal of Poetry (Margie),
Main Street Rag, MiPOesias, New Delta Review, Brooklyn Review, Los
Angeles Review of Books, Voices Israel, Tishman Review, Suisun Valley
Review, Burningwood Review, Fiction Southeast, Junto, Tiferet, plus
featured in New Verse News, Eretz, Avocet, LEVELER, tNY, StepAway,
Bywords, Floor Plan, Good-Man-Project, Anti-Heroin-Chic, Poetry
Circle, Fiction Southeast, Walt Whitman Tribute Anthology and Tipton
Poetry Journal. For Huffington Post/other reviews, readings,
publications, and interviews, visit GerardSarnat.com.
Harvard/Stanford educated, Gerry’s worked in jails, built/staffed
clinics for the marginalized, been a CEO and Stanford Med professor.
Married for a half century, Gerry has three kids and four grandkids
so far.