Blue Collar Holiday & a Valentine To Frank O'hara

Poetry. This book is Jeni Olin's first full collection of poems. It includes original full-color drawings by Larry Rivers. "The rapidly disappearing New York landscape gleams afresh in Jeni Olin's wonderfully caustic and vulnerable lyrics. As she reflects on how 'the Manhattan dusk shots that accompany the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme song leave sadder than the death of a friend,' the city comes in focus, paradoxically, 'like Kleenex on a sidewalk in the rain.' Olin's voice is both raw and strangely accommodating. This is a marvelous debut."-John Ashbery

Jeni Olin lives in Manhattan where she rages in "posh isolation" with her maltese dog Good Times. Jeni received her BA and MFA from Naropa University. Her first full-length book BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY was published by Hanging Loose in 2005. Her most recent publication is a chapbook of pharmaceutical sonnets about antidepressants titled THE PILL BOOK from Faux Press, 2008. She is currently working on a manuscript called EVERYBODY LEAVES. Also she is changing her name to Truck Darling and her friends call her truck.