Barbara A. Holland (1925-1988) was called "the Sybil of Greenwich Village." Her poems of Greenwich Village's Bohemia in its last decades are sharp and surreal takes from an outsider who fled a Wall Street job and chose to live among the writers and artists, a "full-time poet" when such a choice of profession was a guarantee of neglect and poverty. She is the flaneur of streets and harbors, of coffeehouses and lofts, always "alone in my voice" but...
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