First Love & Other Poems: Metrical Moments for the Rest of Us - Softcover

Norman Weinstein was born in Roanoke, Virginia, and has also lived in France, Greece, New York City and, lately, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has degrees from Roanoke College and Columbia University. He has been a military news correspondent, an English teacher, a feature writer for two decorative arts magazines, and a playwright as well as a poet.

These poems are rich with memory, peopled by fascinating characters, and styled in such satisfying and rhythmic music that we may indulge repeatedly in the pleasure of surprise, the gift of an honest, earnest wisdom. Norman Weinstein here shares vividly a life attentively lived. --Arthur Stringer, Author, Channel Markers

This delightful new collection ranges from a dancing Chihuahua to ancient ruins, from free verse to sonnets. Here are poems utterly accessible, their insights readily illuminating life as it is and should be. --Manette R. Berlinger, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Academic Literacy, Retired, CCNY

Whatever the poetic device Norman Weinstein uses to view the world, we recognize the emotion in each of many instances: the student pilot s solo, the woman whose canary has escaped, a teenager s failed love. --Edward Silberfarb, Former Editor, Columbia Journalism School Alumni Association Journal