“Miss Manhattan” by Biman Roy was nominated for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award

The US Review of Books recently announced the much-awaited results for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award.

“Miss Manhattan” by Biman Roy, published by Author Reputation Press, was one of the nominees for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award. It was commended by Barbara Bamberger of the US Review of Books, highlighting that “Sappho can be found in these eclectic poems, as can poet Marianne Moore, Mozart, Monet, Shakespeare, Chopin, Socrates, and Robert DeNiro. Marchers to Stonewall, “through a field of petunias” populate these poems, as do tattoo parlor clientele, such as in the poem “One Tattoo at a Time,” where onlookers gaze, “curious, playful.” This poetry itself is curious and playful, intelligently written, and bears a pleasurable aesthetic. These poems are approachable, colorful, and full of city-life fascinations.”

Eric Hoffer Book Award honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. Since its establishment, the Hoffer has become one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses.

The US Review of Books supports the Eric Hoffer Project by publishing the results of the annual Eric Hoffer Award for Books. The Eric Hoffer Award is judged by a separate panel, under the direction of the Eric Hoffer Project.

Biman Roy has been composing poetry for three decades and has had several publications. His writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Biman Roy has two poetry chapbooks, “Dinosaur Hour” and “Navigating the Quartz Forest,” and one prose poetry chapbook, “Of Moon and Washing Machine.” He is a psychiatrist who works as a consultant at a New York hospital. He currently resides in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Visit his website at https://roybiman.com/.

“Miss Manhattan” by Biman Roy truly captures the richness of diversity and the simultaneity of life happening in New York. The text is rich, tumbling, and layered, yet never chaotic, as the sensations of people, cars, birds, flowers, and all forms of city life cascade around the speaker’s (and reader’s) attention.

Click on this link to find out more about the 2024 Eric Hoffer Award results: https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-winners.html.