Twenty-Four Years of Mondays

About the Book

Twenty Four Years of Mondays is a novel that takes place in New York’s East Village, the home of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and a host of others at the end of the Beat Generation. The book sketches the life of Gideon Polinsky, his love for the deceased writer Herman Hesse culminating in a bizarre existence as a hopeless madman caught up in several lifestyles. It is a dilemma of the very guts of the creative mind with its madness, its hunger, its suffering, and building to a crescendo within existence where the end connects the reader to the horror of possibility. Gideon’s lifestyle is extremely diverse, relentlessly packed with a raw, devouring painful side of life capturing the verve and passion of Greenwich Village in the early ‘60’s.

About the Author

Papahawk (Nathaniel Goldberg) poet and writer, has taught, published 6 poetry anthologies, written four novels, and has been published in other anthologies such as Senior Musings, Serendipity, Let The Poets Speak, etc. He was founder of Ossining Poetry Workshop. In 2000 he ran a poetry group in Paris at George Whitman’s Shakespeare and Co assisted by the prolific poet, Steven Carolan. Nathaniel has placed third in Sarah Bracey White's Greenbourgh Poetry Competition in 2000, and Runner up in 2001. One of his students, Jena Smith placed second in 2009. Nathaniel was founder of South Street Poets, held in Studio 2 in 2003 in Peekskill. His group eventually published an anthology entitled, South Street Poets within which four of his poems appear.