letter to Joseph Pacheco re: The First Nuyorican: Sailing to Sanibel

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Dear Joe,

A mailing from Brooklyn College alerted me to your 
recent book of poetry.

I have read and reread the poems with much respective 
pleasure. I even hunted down a copy of Ivan Gold's 
short story which I hadn't read in 40 years. I had 
forgotten the part about you having total recall 
which I had some direct experience of.

I would hope to live to  see another florilegium of 
your poems published. It might not be possible for 
you to poeticize your middle years but then again it 
might be.

As to the text of that cardboard placard in store 
windows in our youth during WW II, I remember it 
slightly differently: Legislation requires that all 
illumination be extinguished in these premises...

I tried researching the exact text on the Internet 
but drew a blank.

Best,

Mike Eisenstadt