A meticulously schemed novel of those arid pastures where men and women are trapped between desire and reality
Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Dreaming as One, Blue Heaven and Methods of Birth Control, and two volumes of autobiographical writing, Part of My History and The Maharajah’s Son. Born in the Bronx, he lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where he edits for United Artists Magazine & Books. Agnes & Sally is his first novel.
“Agnes Sally is a fascinating polyphonic rendering of the mesh of daily life—written with clarity, calmness and sympathy.” —Jonathan Cott
“The unobtrusive powers of this extraordinary writer make a cautionary tale of all too familiar real lives. Meshed in a web of deadpan cliche, this world is forever all dressed up with no place to go. Mr. Warsh should be our next President. He really knows the People.”
—Robert Creeley
“Agnes Sally is a good book, not just because it makes you love people you might not otherwise notice, and not just because it makes you know what lives of quiet desperation are really like, and not just because the language of the book makes you listen closely a humor to the language we all speak to one another—Agnes Sally is a good book because the book itself cares and looks and listens in ways that we all, if we would be good people, must care and look and listen.” —Russell Banks
