JOHN BURNETT PAYNE - EMILY AND WALT, WALT AND EMILY
John Burnett Payne (1919-1986) was a well-known New York poet, active in the Manhattan poetry scene in the 1970s and 1980s. His sometimes gritty, sometimes wistful portraits of New York range from a fantasy about Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman passing one another on crosstown buses (one hurtling to a poetry reading, the other fleeing it), to a stark depiction of the run-down movie theaters where the film Taxi Driver was shot. This book includes the full text of Payne's long-unavailable chapbooks, Ghosts Scare Tito Rosa; Tell Me That You Love Me, Con Edison; and At the Corner of Third Avenue and 14th Street. The volume has a foreword by Dennis Barone and an afterword and some annotations by Brett Rutherford.
Paperback, 104 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches. ISBN 0-922558-19-1. $14.95. PDF download is available for $4.99. To order from Lulu, CLICK HERE.
Version 1.1 Updated January 12, 2026.
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