Harvey Waldman reading : Shopping Lists for the Apocalypse
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“Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!”
About the Event
Harvey Waldman, 76 year old native New Yorker and Greenwich Village resident, will be presenting his first published book of poems, “Shopping Lists for the Apocalypse”. What sense is there in write shopping lists for the apocalypse? Perhaps the idea is not merely to be aware of looming dangers, but to prepare for the challenges that survival brings, an invitation to hope.
The poems take the reader on a journey from the Bronx to Berkeley, Santa Monica to Greenwich Village, ultimately to life in Milano and on the Amalfi coast. There will be the lives, births and deaths of many family and friends along on the ride, but also with Charlie Manson and Harvey Weinstein.
The book cover is inspired by The Fool from Tarot, in a 1950’s pulp fiction paperback cover style. True to the themes of the book; Waldman’s Fool, instead of being oblivious to walking over a mountainside edge as classically drawn, is walking off a subway platform. He chooses Jose Mujica (the late former President of Uruguay) as his model for The Fool. Even after he was elected and having served many years in prison, Jose Mujica chose to continue to live on his farm rather than the Presidential Palace.
Stay after the reading to purchase copies of the book signed by the author! The book is also available from Olympia Publishers in London as well as from online book sellers.
About the Presenter
Harvey Waldman, with a passion for poetry since his youth, followed by several years acting in theater and feature films in his twenties, put those aside for nearly 50 years to work in film and television production. Writing and now performing the poetry from this book is a return to his roots, and is easily recognized by his contemporaries: people forged by the counter culture that emerged out of the 1960’s. The writing is user friendly, often ironic, comic in tone and best appreciated performed aloud by their author.
Waldman has had successful readings in bookstores and museums in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Ithaca, Bellport, New York, and in Milan, Italy.