In those shot at night on the seedy edges of town, dark shadows and the misty glow of streetlights over pedestrian walkways generate tantalizing states of suspense.
Montale was "an unequaled chronicler of the seedy but meaningful edges of modern life".
The neighborhood is coursing with energy, if a bit seedy around the edges, and feels like a cross between Central Park West and precleanup Times Square.
Galassi, a poet himself, has also translated the major works of the Nobelist Eugenio Montale in COLLECTED POEMS: 1920-1954 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30), an allusive paean to the seedy but meaningful edges of modern life.
The harbor is still pleasantly seedy around the edges, the water fairly shimmers in sunlight, and if Rouse hadn't stepped up there probably wouldn't be so many opportunities for prepubescent amusement in such a small area.
Still seedy around the edges, the Bowery is not yet gentrified -- there's no Starbucks, no Gap -- and it's not clear whether it will soon look more like SoHo, to the west.
Mr. Aronson, an author, editor and historian whose most recent book for young readers is "Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners From 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert," was born in this neighborhood 60 years ago, when the Upper West Side was "bohemian and seedy around the edges," he says.
Mr. Clarke's latest project is the Arizona Market, a collection of sprawling, seedy stalls on the edge of town.
The director, a plump, middle-aged woman with bulging eyes, wearing a large print dress featuring almost all of the state's native flowers, took me to my lodgings: a seedy motel on the edge of town, next to a highway leading nowhere.
Cheryl lands in Dinkytown, the stimulating, seedy Minneapolis neighborhood on the edge of the University of Minnesota that was home to her mother's bohemian wanderings in the 1980s — wanderings that got ugly and prompted Julia's exodus into the suburbs and the steady arms of a stifling husband, with occasional visits to the loony bin.
