Night of the Manhattans by Jennifer Juneau
Reviewed by Linda Lerner

"Night of the Manhattans"
Poetry
Pink Trees Press, NYC
pinktreespress@gmail.com 2025, $20.00, 95 pp.

Not the city owned by Disney” but it’s  Juneau’s,  the poet,  whom we follow, in this collection like no other, taking us from Times Square with its x rated movies, hookers, all night diners, strumming with sound, through a noir, more dangerous world that she thrives on. Nothing is forbidden, nothing quite available. The lover, illusive. While never veering from a “real” city in her search for love, the staccato rhythm propels these poems and the reader further into existential terrain:  the city becomes a microcosm of something larger.  Juneau’s use of the second person takes us with her in what is essentially a search for meaning in her life, search we all share.

This beautifully produced collection of poems by Pink Trees Press, whose cover art by Linda Wulkan will immediately grab you, poems you’ll get drunk on, smoke you’ll inhale from that long-ago time, in this city that made “poetry happen:” this collection. these poems.