"In this latest collection Erik La Prade continues his cinematic verse celebration of urbanity and human tenderness, showing us life freeze-framed into mise-en-scenes of hilarity and heartbreak, as he walks the high wire of a 21st-century NYC life in the arts." - ALAN KAUFMAN, author of "Drunken Angel," editor of "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry" "La Prade is a gifted poet, memoirist, critic, photographer, and urban chronicler of lost artistic and literary byways, with a historian's eye for New York cultural history and downtown avant-garde. Put simply, he dazzles." - GARY SHAPIRO, journalist