“Ivan Taub has always been a vibrant, exhilarating, slightly exotic presence. I knew that he was multi-talented – a musician, a dramatist, an impresario, a poet, a pedagogue – but reading his latest book of poems brings me into intimate contact with Ivan the man. The San Francisco hipster, bee-bop, Beatnik scene of the 1950’s redivivus in the twenty-first century gentrified urban blight that is contemporary Philadelphia; a Dionysian reveler in the whispering groves of academe; an avant-garde psychic, psychedelic mystic tripping on the post 9/11 absurdity of the mummified military/industrial complex that is post-Reaganite democracy.” – Frank Leib, author of Fierce
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