Poetry
68 Pages
ISBN: 1-59766-011-6
Paper: $14.00

Now & Zen: A Life is a collection of short poems by the late Leonard Wallace Robinson. Leonard was a staff writer at the New Yorker, and an editor at Esquire, Colliers, and Holt Rinehard publishing company.

Though he himself has left us, in these crystalline haiku-like poems, Leonard Robinson's wry, sagacious, loving way with the world comes stunningly to life.

The writer Deirdre McNamer has written, "Leonard was a listener, a muser, a laugher, a guide.  He served as a generous and insightful mentor to many writers of fiction and nonfiction.  He could recite reams of poetry by heart, even when he began to forget where he had parked the cars.  His many friends called him "Padre."

 "Oh, thank you Leonard, for Now & Zen! I wish you could be on hand as I read and reread it: one shout of "Oh, yes,yes!" after another. No one, really no one, in our dear land comes anywhere near him for clear lyricism, and deep, subtle, quiet, just right humor. Oh Lennie!"