32168. Obenzinger, Hilton. New York On Fire. Real Comet Press. 1989.
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32168. Obenzinger, Hilton. New York On Fire. Real Comet Press. 1989.
- Obenzinger, Hilton. New York On Fire. Real Comet Press. 1989. 144p. Soft wraps. Largely a book of poetry. Obenzinger describes great New York Fires from the 1600’s to the 1980’s but does so through poems and period writings. (from the WWW) “Writing in the tradition of William Carlos Williams’s Paterson , poet Obenzinger relates New York City’s history through its catastrophic fires, from 1613 to the present. He assembles verse collages of “reminiscences”: an account of a 1776 fire (viewed as part of the Revolutionary War); the tale of one “Old Mose,” a seven-foot fireman who in the 1850s predicts, “Steam is the end of the Volunteers”; that of a teacher in 1851 who asks, “Why do the doors open inward?….” Some of the stories here but more as literature than for fire buffs. (VG+). $18.