Reviews

Now in his eighties, Barry Wallenstein, the author of numerous collections of poems, approaches the poem in a way that is agile and sure-footed; he has a lightness of touch and an ability to encounter the moment with a complete lack of pretentiousness. In this collection, however, and especially in its final section, “Playing in Overtime,” he is doing so while confronting an abyss….

I checked inside the back cover of Barry Wallenstein’s latest book, It’s About Time, for a CD in which his voice, mellow for a native New Yorker, might speak these poems to a cool, curvy sax or a pianist hovering above the keys as a jockey bends over a horse....