Description

 The Late Parade

“Poems”

The Late Parade- Adam Fitzgerald

The Late Parade by Adam Fitzgerald is a fabulous collection of poetry that immerses readers in a world of vivid dreams and elusive memories. With forty-eight poems that blend various tones and emotions. Fitzgerald’s debut collection charms with its playful yet elegiac, and nostalgic yet absurd themes. Drawing inspiration from a range of sources. His poems take readers on a whimsical journey through unreal cities like Dubai. And the former Soviet Union, encountering Nigerian spammers. The Virgin Mary, Dr. Johnson, and Cat Power along the way.

Fitzgerald’s Poems

One of the highlights of this volume is the titular poem. Which Harold Bloom describes as carrying the primal vision of Hart Crane into a future that retains the young poet’s love for reality. Mash-ups of litanies, monologues, and odes. Fitzgerald’s poems are rooted in a modernist landscape filled with linguistic playfulness. Innuendo, archaic language, and everyday slang. While his lines often leave room for multiple interpretations. They never neglect the traditional pleasures of poetic craftsmanship and the power of memory. The music of his poetry creates an ambient drone that is both Technicolor and nitrous oxide. Transporting readers to a realm where imagination reigns supreme.

Richard Howard

However, what truly binds these fantastical poems together is the enchanting and unabashedly love-infused voice of Fitzgerald. His melancholic, baroque, and visionary style resonates throughout The Late Parade, serving as a testament to the potency of confusion. While confusion may mask our sense of loss, it also offers the gift of eloquent expression through poetry. Richard Howard aptly notes that when Fitzgerald intensifies the emotions in his poems, he provides the necessary provocations that allow us to articulate what we never knew we could say. In this way, The Late Parade becomes a celebration of the transformative power of poetry and the beauty found within the depths of our own emotions.

Praise

“In The Late Parade, Adam Fitzgerald is a master of defeating expectations to fulfill them farther along. One has the feeling of climbing higher along a path that is giving way under one’s feet, in pursuit always of a waltz on our breath.’ Yet the rhythmic and consonant commotion of these poems ends in joy. This is a dazzling debut.”
― John Ashbery

“Adam Fitzgerald’s The Late Parade is wildly alive with the grit and glue of broken objects and the noise of lost things. You can count on the immense care he takes in putting music back into the world. You can count on the fact this is a book we will read for years to come.”
― Dorothea Lasky

“Released from the plod of workaday logics and handed over to the flow of their becoming, the poems in The Late Parade shudder with exhilarating assurance and nonstop invention, never fully breaking it off with the familiar, but incapable of leaving it untransformed. We’ve been waiting too long for a book like this to arrive. Wake up―it’s finally here.”
― Timothy Donnelly

“The Late Parade by Adam Fitzgerald may be the beginning of a great career.”
― Harold Bloom

Credits

“Fitzgerald’s voice is a new and welcome sound in the aviary of contemporary poetry… His is a third way, a poetry that is neither sealed off from human ears nor bent solely on pleasing them. In a word, his poems are drunk on both word and allusion and are therefore doubly tipsy… The result is poetry as lush as any of Keat’s odes, as textured as a corridor in the Louvre… No wonder this was the first debut collection acquired by W.W. Norton’s resurrected Liveright division, which helped define modernism in America in the 1920s… Reading ‘The Late Parade’ wasn’t like listening to a mountain peak. It was more like listening to the earth laugh.”
― David Kirby, New York Times Book Review

Adam Fitzgerald

Adam Fitzgerald is a poet, editor, and teacher based in New York City. He is the founder and editor of the esteemed poetry journal, Maggy. In 2007, Fitzgerald accomplished a significant milestone by completing his master’s degree while simultaneously editing two unpublished essays written by John Ashbery on the renowned poets W.H. Auden and Henry Green. This impressive feat took place at Boston University’s prestigious Editorial Institute. Continuing his academic pursuits, Fitzgerald obtained his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2010.

Accomplishments

Fitzgerald’s talent and dedication to his craft have been recognized through the publication of his poems in esteemed literary publications such as A Public Space, Boston Review, Conjunctions, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. His work has garnered critical acclaim and continues to captivate readers. Currently, Fitzgerald shares his expertise and passion for literature and creative writing as an adjunct professor at Rutgers University and The New School. Despite residing in a modest studio apartment in the East Village, Fitzgerald’s impact on the literary world is far from small. His debut collection of poetry, titled “The Late Parade,” was published by W.W. Norton’s Liveright imprint in June 2013, solidifying his place among the esteemed poets of his generation.

Education

Adam Fitzgerald is a multifaceted individual who has made significant contributions to the world of poetry. As a poet, editor, and teacher, he has left an indelible mark on the literary landscape. Fitzgerald’s journey began with the establishment of Maggy, a poetry journal that has become a platform for emerging and established poets alike. In 2007, he achieved a remarkable feat by completing his Master’s degree while simultaneously editing two unpublished essays by John Ashbery on the influential poets W.H. Auden and Henry Green. This accomplishment took place at Boston University’s Editorial Institute, showcasing Fitzgerald’s dedication to both his academic and editorial pursuits.

Publications

Continuing his pursuit of excellence, Fitzgerald obtained his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2010. His poetic prowess has been recognized through the publication of his work in esteemed literary publications such as A Public Space, Boston Review, Conjunctions, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. These publications have provided a platform for Fitzgerald’s compelling and thought-provoking poems, which have garnered critical acclaim. Currently, Fitzgerald imparts his knowledge and passion for literature and creative writing as an adjunct professor at Rutgers University and The New School. Despite residing in a small studio apartment in the vibrant East Village, Fitzgerald’s