What is good fortune? The Golden Coin asks--and answers--this question in poems about youth, conflict, travel, family love, and the joys and fears of getting old. Aboard his sailboat, Feldman draws lessons from the sea about time and history. His gaze tempered not by nostalgia or longing but by satisfaction and happiness, he finds wry joy in the Havana airport's sniffer dog napping near the impounded luggage. In acknowledging the inevitability of change, he reports from the battle zones of an essentially lucky life, with only as much sadness and terror as ordinary life inevitably requires.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 03/06/2018
ISBN: 9780299316747
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d