Lottery of Intimacies

• Lottery of Intimacies
• Price: $16.00
• Poetry | Paperback
• Pages -124
• Jonathan Katz
• ISBN 978-1-949540-24-6
• January 17, 2022

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Lottery of Intimacies is the third poetry collection by the well-known cultural policy leader, arts administrator and educator, Jonathan Katz. His readers will find the great range of subject matter, mood and perspective they have come to expect as they encounter poems crafted to explore the functions and power of story-telling, the challenging search for love, the value and influence of poetry, and ultimately how artistic experience contributes to one’s quest for meaning. Reviewers have praised Katz’s “dazzling lines,” “lyricism,” “joy and rhythm.” The voices of these new poems vary from youthful to maturing to seasoned; readers will be entertained by a keen sense of irony, be engaged in reflection on mortality, and be surprised by the frequency of humor, a rare commodity in contemporary poetry. Reading this book is like having a conversation with an intimate friend.

ADVANCE PRAISE

Jonathan Katz’s Lottery of Intimacies brims with wry insight and tender curiosity, whether it is interrogating the delicacies of the dinner table or the meaning of the tango. Though these poems embrace hard truths — that “We are reminded of that special wound — youth flying away – that never heals,” the glowing impression one retains is that of a huge affection for all the juicy, messy, complicated possibilities that life presents. What a pleasure it is to spend time with this book, this experience of gratitude.
—Elizabeth Scanlon, Editor, American Poetry Review