Chris O’Hanlon Poet
The Bronx Years is filled with
vitalità.
The collection poses
fundamental questions: What
are ancestors? Who are we
meant to become?
Nathalie Handal,
Life in a Country Album
Christine is a master poet of
the heart and the head, of
the
street and the wide-open spaces
of family, love and hope.
Matthew Lippman,
Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful
In The Bronx Years, Christine
recalls
her rebellion growing up
in a traditional, three-generation
Italian-American family in the
Bronx, New York. The poems
examine her relatives – with
humor and honesty –
and ask,
what do we choose to inherit?
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Her work
appears in the Paterson
Literary Review, Voices in
Italian
Americana and the anthology,
Rumors,
Secrets & Lies
for the Allen Ginsberg Award.
I got my first pair of roller skates metal ones that gripped the sides of my shoes state-of-the-art 1956. I had a skate key to adjust the width and length and leather straps that went around my ankles. I took off We lived in a neighborhood with lots of asphalt smooth sailing for me careening down hills around curves. Stopping was harder than starting. Sometimes I forgot I was wearing skates. One day I wore them climbing a metal staircase inside an apartment building. I disturbed an old biddy who reported me to the neighborhood rent-a-cops. When they caught up with me, I gave them a fake name and address. And skated free
