Stickball on 88th Street

Comic, tragic, colorful, and adventurous, "Stickball on 88th Street" is a sequence of thirty-four narrative poems that follows its speaker from boyhood to college. It's a memory book, bound with vignettes of school, family life, and the streets of New York City, as well as Maine and Mexico, culminating with a swan dive in Colorado. It reads like a novel or memoir, with characters, setting, and plot.