Norman Stock Presents His Award-Winning Debut Book “Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot: Poems”

Norman Stock’s first book, “Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot,” was published in 1994 as winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Contest. His poems have been featured in many magazines and anthologies, and he has received awards from the Writer’s Voice, Poets & Writers’ Maureen Egan Writers Exchange, the Bennington Writing Workshops, and the Tanne Foundation. He was also a Bread Loaf fellow and a Sewanee scholar.

In the early 1980s, Norman Stock participated in a workshop run by David Ignatow where he wrote free verse poems with lines that told intriguing tales. Ignatow suggested that they be written as prose poetry. He left the poems alone but was intrigued by that idea and began writing surrealistic prose poems. “A Giant Woman Is Talking to Me,” which is most likely the first, is included in the book along with other works he created at that period. He likes how they turned conventional shapes on their heads and that it allowed him to explore other area of his mind.

The primary message or driver behind the book is the expression of Stock’s frustrations, hopes, and the comedy of his life through poetic lines and prose poems. The book is a series of imaginative and humorous speculation and reflections by the poet about his life.

There is no doubt that “Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot” will continue to be enjoyed by readers for years to come. It is a timeless exploration of what it means to be human, told through the eyes of someone who has experienced life in all its ups and downs.

Overall, this book is an important contribution to contemporary poetry. It provides readers with a fresh perspective on love and loss, while also giving them plenty of food for thought. I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for an insightful and thought-provoking read.

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“Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot: Poems” (The Peregrine Smith Poetry Series)
Publisher: Gibbs Smith; 1st edition (January 1, 1994)
Language: ‎ English
Paperback: ‎ 112 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 193552030X
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1935520306

About the Author
Norman Stock’s first book, “Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot,” was published by Gibbs Smith in 1994 as winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Contest. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, College English, The New York Quarterly, The New England Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, Verse, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies and textbooks. The recipient of awards from the Writer’s Voice, Poets & Writers’ Maureen Egan Writers Exchange, the Bennington Writing Workshops, and the Tanne Foundation, he has also been a Bread Loaf fellow, a Sewanee scholar, and a finalist for Poet Laureate of Queens. Formerly the Acquisitions Librarian at Montclair State University, from which he retired in 2005, he lives with his wife, Lydia Chang, a clinical psychotherapist, in Jackson Heights, New York.

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