For more than half a century, readers and listeners have taken
special pleasure in the poetry of X. J. Kennedy. "In a Prominent
Bar in Secaucus" is an ample gathering of his best work: memorable
songs, startling lyrics, poems that tell poignant stories,
character studies that vie with those of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
A master of verbal music, Kennedy has long been praised for his wit
and humor; as this collection reveals, many of his poems also reach
surprising depths and heights. Donald Hall comments, "many of
Kennedy's poems are wit itself. His wit is his way of
understanding. No one else writing is capable of the effects in
which Kennedy specializes." This book skims the cream from several
slim volumes and six past collections including the prize-winning
"Nude Descending a Staircase", "Cross Ties", and "The Lords of
Misrule". It restores to print over fifty poems unavailable for
decades and adds more than two dozen new poems collected for the
first time. Kennedy has long occupied a unique place in American
poetry; "In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus" now offers the first
comprehensive collection to span his entire career.
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