Give me this moment - Baumgarten, Joshua

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Résumé :
'Give Me This Moment' by poet/performer Joshua Baumgarten is the outspoken yet understated follow up to his 2015 collection of poetry and prose, 'The Poetry of Modern Urban Hope'. Picking up where his first full length collection left off, 'Give Me This Moment' brings to the page Baumgarten's unique poetic energy, one that straddles the diverse world of the creative artist and that of being a father, a husband and poet. Baumgarten's poetry finds its roots in the exploration of our common mundane and how we all strive to stay sane in our day to day. These are poems conversing with the reader on how we as people can still remain engaged in our seemingly topsy turvy world without allowing our mind and emotions to feed into the flames of populist rage. Baumgarten creates a poetic style that touches upon the serious side of life while still being able to serve it all up with a smile of sly understanding. 'Give Me This Moment' is the ideal book of poetry for people who still think that they don't get poetry or that poetry doesn't get them.

Biographie:
https://irrationallibrary.nl Joshua Baumgarten/The Irrational Library - (1971) Expat suburban NY Jew living the life in the Netherlands. Was taught early on by overly nationalistic school teachers to either love it or leave it so he left it. Now up to his neck in the muck of cultural agitation in Haarlemtown, Baumgarten is considered to be the second coming of some unknown beat poet from the '60s. Baumgarten denies this and does not believe in reincarnation. Baumgarten has been said to use the word Fuck quite often in his writings. Baumgarten is the author of a number of self-published books and continues to have little patience for poetry editors. As the frontman for the band The Irrational Library, Baumgarten says a lot of things that a large number of Dutch people don't associate with. Baumgarten is currently writing a collection of sweet character assassination pieces about members of the Republican party. Baumgarten hopes that one day, poetry will be the golden shower to rain down upon all the nationalistic idiots around the world.