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Happy Hour Heart of New Orleans
Paperback
Publisher: Roadside Press
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Happy Hour Heart of New Orleans is a deeply human collection of New Orleans-born poems and photographs that exists somewhere between first kiss and last call. Todd Cirillo captures beauty in lives lived on the edge of celebration and collapse in The City That Care Forgot. The collection reflects New Orleans life where indulgence and introspection coexist-bartenders and jukeboxes, jazz bands and barstools, boas and tutus, tourists and outlaws, magnolias at midnight, early levee walks, the quiet poetry of everyday rituals, ghosts and glitter.
With unfiltered authenticity, Cirillo lays bare a unique world where sin and salvation move to the rhythm of shot glasses and brass bands in this sinking city. A crescent in the Mississippi River, where kisses feel different than anywhere else. Happy Hour Heart of New Orleans is about connection to a city shaped by contrasts. A love letter and treasure map-guiding locals, visitors and barflies through its resilience, corruption, humor, loss, unrestrained joy, unkept hope, unspent love and, in the end, the best spot in the house for one's ashes.
Todd Cirillo was born of bastard lineage. He has many books and misdemeanors. His books include: Sucker's Paradise, Burning the Evidence, ROXY, Kisses from a Straight Razor, Disposable Darlings, Three Poets Walk Into a Bar.... His poems have appeared in numerous national and international literary journals, magazines and on cocktail napkins everywhere. He is editor and co-founder of Six Ft. Swells Press. Todd lives in New Orleans, Louisiana where he seeks out shiny moments and strange wisdom while looking pretty.
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