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Eleanor Lerman (born 1952) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
June 1, 2024. Murmurations. As the train neared its final stop, Gabriel began the process of trying to get himself out of his seat.
Eleanor Lerman was raised in the Bronx and Far Rockaway, and has lived in New York City all her life. Her first book of poetry, Armed Love (Wesleyan University Press), was published in 1973 when she was twenty-one and was nominated for a National Book Award.
Born in the Bronx, poet Eleanor Lerman grew up there and in Queens, New York. Her literary influences include Leonard Cohen and James Tate, and her poetry explores sexuality, loss, transformation, and the legacy of the 1960s.
Eleanor Lerman. This is what life does. It lets you walk up to . the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a . stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have . your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman . down beside you at the counter who say, Last night, . the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder,
Eleanor Lerman's poems have sociological savvy, philosophical rue, historical recognition and vernacular resilience. They sing a song that is bravely gloomy, but they sing it with a fierce and earned dignity.
Eleanor Lerman is a writer who lives in New York. Her first book of poetry, Armed Love (Wesleyan University Press, 1973), published when she was twenty-one, was nominated for a National Book Award.
