Like Father Like Son

Villa Florentine Press, 2007. Gift inscribed by the author on half title page. Lyric poetry and prose poetry by two widely published poets. This compilation, Earl Coleman's third published collection of poems, celebrates his 91st birthday as well as the 63rd birthday of his son Allan, who has issued one previous book of poems and several artist's books. Both writers have published widely in literary magazines. Earl Coleman has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize for fiction, and once for Best American Short Stories. Allan Coleman received a 2001 Performing Arts Award from the Council for the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island and, most recently, a 2007 "New Work" grant from the same organization. Like Father Like Son comprises two separate chapbooks joined in a distinctive two-cover design. Each half presents a selection of new and previously published poems, accompanied by an extensive interview addressing its subject's writing background and approach to practice. Earl Coleman's interview first appeared in the journal River King in 2003. Allan Coleman's counterpart thereto, a recent self-interview, appears in print for the first time. The concerns of their lyric poems and prose poems range from the scrabble for survival in Depression-era New York through the successes and failures of love and marriage to the perils of old age, and from the public arena of political life to the interior spaces of the creative process. Like Father Like Son takes on added resonance by contrasting and combining the perspectives of two generations of writers from the same family.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.