The Heaven-sent Leaf - Katy Lederer

In The Heaven-sent Leaf, Katy Lederer Draws On Her Experience As Both Acclaimed Younger Poet And Brainworker At A Hedge Fund In Midtown Manhattan To Produce An Uncannily Prescient Work Of High Lyric. Though On Its Surface The Heaven-sent Leaf Addresses That Most Taboo Of Subjectsmdash;moneymdash;what It Ultimately Confronts Is What It Means To Be, As Wallace Stevens Put It, Finally Human. Working In The Tradition Of The Flaneur, Lederer Charts Her Speakers' Interior Landscapes According To The Citys Highly Monetized Geography, Viewing Life In The Big City Through The Lens Of Expendituremdash;not Just Of Money, But Of All That Money Signifies.