With A Bleeding in Black Leather, John Pietaro takes urban poetry and fiction on a throbbing roller-coaster ride through latent modernism, self-exploration, jagged rhythmic cadences and the raw sounds of music and words. All the while reveling in New York centricity. Here’s a collection conceived in Selby’s Brooklyn in the bare light of the blue hour.
“In 2020, I described John Pietaro’s The Mercer Stands Burning as a love poem to the muse and to NYC itself. One foot out of the pandemic, A Bleeding in Black Leather is part punk rock dirge, part jazz symphony, paying homage to the lost and to the living treasures. Sonny stands at the bridge and Selby’s Brooklyn “surrounds Manhattan like a fallen idol.” The last lines are, I hope, a segue to the next installment: ‘So smeared, the rainbows of ink…saturation to the vivid’.”
-PUMA PERL, rock-n-roll poet of the Lower East Side, resident poet of Chelsea Community News, she leads the band Puma Perl & Friends. Puma’s latest publication is Birthdays Before and After.
A Bleeding in Black Leather by John Pietaro
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