The City That Never Sleeps: Poems of New York (Excelsior Editions) - Hardcover

"Shawkat Toorawa has selected a thrilling chorus of voices, familiar and new, formal and slangy, immigrant and native. A perfect companion for your day or night on the town." -- Robyn Creswell, poetry editor of The Paris Review

"A strength of this collection is its rich mix of female and male poets, and its wide range of demographic, racial, linguistic, aesthetic, and other multicultural perspectives across a period of time ranging from the late nineteenth century to our own decade. The poems are as various and full of élan as the city itself." -- Lisa Russ Spaar, editor of All That Mighty Heart: London Poems

"There are almost as many anthologies of New York poems as there are skyscrapers, but in terms of sheer reading pleasure The City That Never Sleeps towers over them all." -- Don Share, Editor, Poetry magazine