Musings Of A Madman

About the Book

Musings of a Madman is a compilation of poetry stretching from a meager existence in New York’s East Village, with Allen Ginsberg and other such poets to Paris, and environs and finally Colombia. The poems sketch a life style of a lonely man to a final relationship with Adriana, muse, Colombian Princessa and finally wife and a life in Westchester as a jazz musician and poet. It is an dilemma of the very guts of the creative mind with its madness, its hunger its suffering, culminating in a crescendo within existence where the end justify the means. The poems are extremely diverse, some easygoing, some serious, most devouring the beauty of life and its prize and pain, yet all 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.