Henry Schneiderman

Father, Doctor, and the Great City: Poems and Drawings 1964?2003 Henry Schneiderman

A practicing physician sings about patients, his infant son, the city of his origin, firefighters, and a beloved Sheltie and Border Collie. In Father, Doctor and the Great City, Schneiderman is influenced by the Ancient Greek lyricists and other poets, from 16th Century British to contemporary anthologies of poems about dogs and baseball to Billy Collins. He follows his son's growth to manhood with love and humor, laments lost friends, and celebrates the African, Jewish-Polish, Italian (Calabrese and Napolitan) and Irish individuals of his family. He ranges from Elizabeth, NJ, to the South Bronx, to a bird refuge in Oregon, to a Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. These poems celebrate birds, the good fight against cancer, architecture, dogs, people, art, and, everywhere, his wife.