Poet uses 17 syllables to describe 9 million people in NYC

Peter Goldmark has held several highly influential jobs, including head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, program director in the Environmental Defense Fund, and publisher of the International Herald Tribune. Now he can add “Author and Poet” to the list:Haikus for New York City, “(Tuttle Publication) is out now. Syllables for 17 million people? This will never work! “Announces the cover.

These poems are a love letter to the city. (“In this crowded city, horny, shoving, hurrying / you can be alone” “Ever go a whole day / Only on the corners / crossing on the green?” To be descriptive. ”

Goldmark casually began writing poetry at the age of 40, dealing with professional stress. “I have jobs with real pressure – riots, hostage conditions, and it was a way that I realized what I was really feeling.”

One such high-pressure job is: working as New York State budget director during the fiscal crisis of the 1970s (“We won in the game below ninth,” he says. “But we almost didn’t . ”

The hike was a way to work through the gloom of this past year. Eight members of his immediate family had COVID-19, so there was a very personal dimension to the epidemic. Writing helped. “It was a moment when we redeveloped and respected some great things about NYC, during a time when we rediscovered that we wanted to help each other,” he says. “And we were rediscovered with reverence and mischief, that we might rise to a challenge.”

After the epidemic, the people of New York will need to show one of the most UN-New York quality: patience. “The city requires all of us to orient ourselves for a period of shaking when we realize what was only a temporary change, and leading to a major change,” he says. “We don’t know how it will be solved. But for this we need to be prepared and go on that journey together. “

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