Peddler on the Road: Days in the Life of Willy Sypher
Poetry. Reading PEDDLER ON THE ROAD, you will meet a genuine American hero, the unsung kind that, though all but faded into myth, once invigorated the national landscape, with optimism and faith in the worth of the common man. "Willy Sypher is a vanished breed: the Jewish, Midwestern, traveling purveyor of a menswear line. The poems trace in chronological order Willy's tales of road life: loneliness and lust, prejudice and pals. It takes a certain...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1568091060
ISBN13:9781568091068
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Time Being Books
Length:120 Pages
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Review by Lewis P. Simpson
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
No achievement in his poetic career exceeds Louis Daniel Brodsky's creation of Willy Sypher, a Jewish travelling salesman for a Midwestern manufacturer of men's clothing. . . . No poet at work today has a more . . . passionate regard for the infinite worth of the experience of being alive. - Lewis P. Simpson, author of The Dispossessed Garden
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