False Autobiography : Poems, 1940-1990

Distinguished screenwriter ("Intruder in the Dust", "The Asphalt Jungle") & previous National Book Award Nominee ("Edward Weston" '74) Ben Maddow harvests half a century of poetic achievement in A False Autobiography reflecting the tumultuous experience of five decades as recorded in an ironically inimitable voice, succint & wise , encompassing losses both public & private & hailed by fellow poet Allen Ginsberg as "a pleasure to read...sparse, spare & sage..."Maddow, Ben is the author of 'False Autobiography : Poems, 1940-1990', published 1991 under ISBN 9780962990908 and ISBN 0962990906.