NYQ Books™ Announces the Release of Bones & Jokes by Ted Jonathan

New York, NY, February 13, 2010 --(PR.com)-- In his first full-length collection, Bones & Jokes, published by NYQ Books, Ted Jonathan delivers up poems and stories out of a gritty urban reality that are as raw and original as the characters and streets from which they come. Jonathan weaves the language of the street into a rhythmic frenzy that pleases the ear in both his poetry and prose. He uses this lyricism like the stealth of a cat bringing its owner a mouse to seek a greater understanding of things like violent childhood icons, poker games, and hookers and lays that understanding at the feet of the reader as proof of life. Bones & Jokes is savage, joyous, profound and dead on funny, but behind it all is a gentle love and clear sanity that makes it all memorable.

Stephanie Dickinson writes, "In Bones & Jokes, Ted Jonathan, an anti-hero prizefighter of a poet and prose writer, gives us a work of startling dark beauty, thrilling rhythmic prose and storytelling poetry. He writes out of a gritty urban reality. This is noir at its best, its speech pared away yet lyrically lush. The collection has everything: violent childhood icons, Jewish giants and immigrant denizens. It is savage, brilliantly entertaining and dead on funny. I predict for Jonathan a wide readership."

Ted Jonathan is a poet and short story writer. Born and raised in the Bronx, he lives in Manhattan. His work has appeared in numerous journals. His chapbook Spiked Libido was published by Neukeia Press. Bones & Jokes is his first full-length collection.

The New York Quarterly Foundation, Inc. has been publishing poetry since 1969. NYQ Books was established in 2009 as an additional venue to be made available to the poets published within its pages over the past 40 years.Available: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powell's, Small Press Distribution

To the trade: Ingram, Small Press Distribution

124 Pages, 6 x 9

ISBN: 978-1-935520-01-6

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