And Today I Am Happy

Penny Cagan, a longtime resident of New York City, catches the emotions and details of modern urban life. Walking through this collection of finely tuned poems are street-thug teenagers, immigrant grandparents, Isaac Singer, Herman Munster, a lecherous professor, a family, dear friends, and the millions of others working and living in New York. Seen through the quiet and sometimes lonely eye of the writer, the places and characters of New York come alive through her very personal experiences.