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Frank Lehner's new book, Mrs. Nussbaum's Monkey, is a Pittsburgh pastoral. It is a love poem and a field guide to the unknown landscape that exists beneath and beyond the truisms about blue collar, industrial cities in America. Here, Lehner is the Whitman of his city. ""I dress in the sacred garment of streets,"" he writes. And he drenches those streets in tenderness, generosity, and a welter of unexpected detail "" Mrs. Nussbaum's Monkey is a tribute to the unknownness of place, of the many surprising places this industrial city represents. This book is an eloquent revision. A revelation. -Lynn Emanuel,

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Nadine Gordimer once said, ""The facts are always less than what really happened,"" a sentence that looped through my mind as I read Mrs. Nussbaum's Monkey, Frank Lehner's out-of-the-wild-blue debut collection. At their uncanny, shaggy-dog, giddily gyrating best, these poems and hybrid prose pieces make ""what really happened"" happen right now as Big DickTeddy, Miss Addy, the legendary monkey Jessers, and many other singular characters come permanently alive in Lehner's Pittsburgh, where despite everything, ""there's always the wonder and magic,"" where, despite everything, ""We joy we don't know we joy. We tomorrow joy. We death joy."" - John Repp

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Frank Lehner a poet, award-winning book designer, folk artist, and playwright. Frank hails from and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife, the writer and educator, Nancy Koerbel, and their Husky mix, Mssr. Bârü. He is the principal at Naridus, LLC. Frank holds a BA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in psychology from Duquesne University. The author is one of the founding members of the literary magazine 5 AM. His chapbook Some Kingdom is published by GTA Press. Frank's poetry has appeared in diverse periodicals and his plays have been staged in Pittsburgh and New York City

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