Daniel "Danny" Farnsworth Kerwick
1956-2017
Cover art by Patricia Kaschalk
Introductory notes by Patricia Kaschalk, Paul Pines and John Roche.
Proceeds from the book will be donated to the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic.
Though suffering from an illness that would prove to be fatal, in April of 2017 Danny returned to Rochester to spend time with his family and help with his beloved father's transition to a nursing home. The poems in this book were written in the last seven weeks of his life during his time there. He never made it back bodily to New Orleans, but the city, its poets, artists, culture and the community that was graced by him will forever consider itself a homeplace for him and his great soul.
—Patricia Kaschalk
Poet of rivers and rails, poet of backyards and bars, poet of incremental flashes of awareness as it all goes by, all goes by. Jazz poet, street poet, Simpatico bard, raconteur, Rochester poet, NOLA legend; Danny Kerwick was all these and more.
—John Roche
His passion for poetry embraced the work of others as fiercely as his own, which marked him as unique in my experience. On my yearly visits to NOLA, Danny became my Virgil.
—Paul Pines
From the book:
The Writer
morning light shadows
lengthening treeline
till height of sun
reverses nature’s process
to its roots
a punctuation in sky
to walk under
weaving upstream
to a shack by Creekside
tiny falls from shale-ledge
words & worries
emanate from floorboards
a single table
in middle of room
concern for friend
writes cobwebs
spider’s prey trapped
without empathy
we pray hands
collapsed on forehead
write something beautiful
write something
for your friend
Star Juggler
is a 40 page hand-stitched chapbook - $10.00.
Proceeds from the book will be donated to the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic.
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Release date 11/20
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