Pandora's Box

About the Book

Book Summary With the publication of Pandora’s Box – New Collected Poems the author presents a collection of his more recently written poems. This new volume can be viewed as a book end to his prior collection Please Ask, Do Tell – The Collected Poems which represents a collection of some of his favorite poems that were written over a span of 40 years. In his novella Stuff Happens author Jack Henry Markowitz combines elements of fiction and non fiction in a new form he calls “Friction” - a combination of the fictitious with the real. In The Practice and Other Stories he writes short stories with satiric wit and Jewish humor about working class New York characters he had observed during his growing-up years. With the publication of Bubbie and Zadie Save the Day Markowitz retells a Romanian folk tale that his mother often told to him and his siblings as a rather unusual bed time story The author resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he continues to work and write. See links for more information: www.jhmcommunications.com; http://jckmrkwtz.blogspot.com.

About the Author

Jack Henry Markowitz, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in a magical time when Coney Island was still thought of as the entertainment capital of the world – a time when the Brooklyn Dodgers still played at Ebbets Field and millions of people came to visit the fabled beaches and boardwalk, Steeplechase Park, Parachute Jump, Cyclone Roller Coaster and Nathan’s Famous. During his undergraduate years at Hamilton College, Markowitz studied creative writing with Wallace Markfi eld (To An Early Grave, Teitlebaum’s Window) and with Alex Haley (Roots, The Autobiography of Malcolm X). Markowitz resides in Philadelphia where he continues to work and write. In this new volume of The Kool-Aid Drinkers & Other Poems the author presents a collection some of his more recent poems.