After the War for Independence
Lafemina, Gerry![After the War for Independence](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/431/43191337/CHSBZCOP0343191337.jpg)
Gerry LaFemina is not so much a presence in contemporary poetry as a blur of movement, a quick phrase of enlightenment, a dharma bum of punk and junk. He watches nuns getting drunk in a bar, hears Leonard Cohen on the juke, drinks the blaze of light in every glass. Like Whitman, who inspired both Kinnell and Kerouac, LaFemina understands the body's demands, "Its sweat, toils, & passions. It's holy vigor." LaFemina rides the rapids of contempor...