Lord Byron's Foot: Poems [Hardcover]

George Green’s poems are full of wit, lore, and extraordi­nary twists. They converse delightfully of cultures high and low, yet with a vision which recognizes in Warhol’s portraits “a frightful vacancy and transience,” and can see in twinkling Sirius “a loose bulb on the drunkard’s porch that flickers.” His constantly amusing discourse has an enriching darkness which transcends the comic.  —Richard Wilbur

The poems of George Green, with their breadth of knowl­edge, their eloquence, their humor, their vitality, all incom­parably orchestrated, are astonishing. He is one of the truly outstanding poets at work today.  —Mark Strand

Lord Byron’s Footis worth the price of admission for the title poem alone, but every poem here has its surprises and pleasures. In George Green’s poems, Jimmy Hendrix rubs shoulders with John Wilkes Booth, Pindar, and Maria Callas, to name a few. If this makes Green sound ironic and postmodern, that is misleading. Green treats his readers as though we were as cool, urbane, well-read, smart, and unpretentious as he is. He’s probably wrong, but how can we not be flattered and beguiled?

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A. E. Stallings

George Green’s poems have appeared in various journals and in the anthologiesPoetry 180; 180 More Poems; The Best American Poetry 2005,and2006;Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds; andThe Swallow Anthology of New American Poets. He teaches at Lehman College, CUNY, in the Bronx.