Description
Visit old Brooklyn, in all its grit and glory.
A vivid, affectionate portrait of early-20th-century Brooklyn from Emanuel M. (“Morris”) Cohen (1892–1981)—painter, photographer, woodworker, and late-life poet. Written in the 1960s, these poems recall cobblestones and gas lamps, nickel pints, circuses, and the clatter of horse hooves. Morris loved ballparks and Broadway; boxing and popular song; fireworks and silent films. He reminisced wistfully about a toy steam engine he dreamed of as a child but never owned, and wrote of rats in old buildings on rainy days. From pigs’ feet and pickles to Coney Island summers and the sting of the Dodgers’ hateful move west, from a heartfelt ode to his hero Jackie Robinson to a playful roster of New York City’s mayors, this collection gifts us a warm and lively time capsule—an older weave of Brooklyn’s multicultural tapestry, still faintly visible beneath the city’s modern surface.
Product Details
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 88
- Size: 6×9
- Binding: Perfect bound
- Cover: Glossy UV-coated for durability
- ISBN: 978-1-968961-10-7
- Printed in the USA.
Emanuel M. (“Morris”) Cohen (1892–1981) was a lifelong Brooklynite, a Renaissance spirit, and an Army veteran of World War I. This collection includes many poems originally published by the New York Daily News, as well as others from his private journals.
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