Shattered Hours

In Shattered Hours Gerry LaFemina creates a mosaic of America fusing fragments of broken histories, biographies, and cultural artifacts into a startling landscape of the late twentieth century. Chronicled in poems of verbal control and formal inventiveness and populated by personas both famous and obscure, this America is a place of "rock-n-roll, diners, [and] cars big enough for lovemaking / and rebellion" as well as "pan handlers, airplanes, [and] desire./ Always desire." It is this longing that is the central theme of the book a fitting collection for the millennium's end.