Manhattans, Bronxes and Queens
Funk, J. Wilfred. Manhattans, Bronxes and Queens. First Edition, Second Printing. 1931. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good plus condition—the jacket shows paper loss to the corners. Drawings by Russell Patterson.
This book of light verse, illustrated with Art Deco drawings, takes the dramas and complexities of sophisticated living and turns them into sheer delight. It is café society at its most enchanting. However, do not let the apparent lightness of the subject matter fool you. The sum of all that lightness is greater than the individual parts. Poems include “From a Downtown Skyscraper,” “The Einstein Blues,” “A Tippler’s Litany,” and “The Insatiable Sex.”
“God is some one you can see/Silken femininity/Exquisite in flesh and bone/Warmer than a god of stone.”
--Wilfred J. Funk