Vincent Katz

"Artist Janet Fish is well known for her richly executed oil paintings and watercolors of glass, fruit, and flowers, through which she "captures the beauty of everyday objects." The true subject of her paintings, however, is the movement of light and color from one object to the other, and critics have continually praised her art, labeling it "beyond realism." The only previous monograph on her paintings, long out of print, is today a collector's item. Now, Abrams is proud to present this new and completely up-to-date survey of her work." "The introduction gives way to page after page of Janet Fish's beautiful and engaging paintings, filled with life and light, color and fascinating detail. In all, more than 100 works are reproduced in full color, including gorgeously outsize details and four gatefolds. An illustrated chronology as well as selected exhibition history and bibliography round out the book."--BOOK JACKET.

In Pearl, Lynn Crosbie examines the often unsettling regions of loss and despair, in haunting and compelling terms. Crosbie's language is seductive, elliptical, and unnerving. Experiencing Pearl is to give yourself over to Crosbie's world, at the risk of not returning.

"Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through the New York City Broadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for Katz's path through these poems: from Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouse downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title, with its implication that one could give something as large and undefinable as Broadway to a single person, courts an impossibility that generates the possibility of friendship, as well as the largesse Katz wants to find in our civic discourse. In poems such as "Juneteenth," "Ivanka Skirting," and "This Beautiful Bubble," we encounter his reckoning with a divisive culture that can, he suggests, be healed, through our daily acts--through a kind of alert graciousness that also defines his poetry. In this moving collection, we enter Katz's world, both public and private, and experience poetry as a way of seeing that can change hearts and minds"--

This book contains forty-six full color reproductions of the monotypes from The Varick Series, produced in October 1999, together with master printer Maurice Sanchez. The images are accompanied with poems by Elaine Equi and Vincent Katz, as well as an essay by Vincent Katz and an introduction by Peter Blum.-Publisher