If I Said That I Would Love You: A Performance Poet's Journey

See more books by Mason Loika

Paperback
$24.40
$24.95 $24.40
Sale Sold out
🚚 Usually delivered in 4 days for as little as $4.50
Goodreads:0.0 · 0 ratings · 0 reviews

Already own this book? You can now sell it through BookLoop, Bookabaloo's used book marketplace for cash or book credit, it's up to you!

Sell my copy
1 1
Paperback
$24.40
$24.95 $24.40
Sale Sold out
🚚 This is usually shipped and delivered in 4 days for as little as $4.50
Goodreads:0.0 · 0 ratings · 0 reviews

Already own this book? You can now sell it through BookLoop, Bookabaloo's used book marketplace for cash or book credit, it's up to you!

Sell my copy

Author: Mason Loika

Title: If I Said That I Would Love You: A Performance Poet's Journey

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 322

Release Date: 2026-03-12

Details: A memoir by Mason Loika who grew up in Miami, Florida where he tanned as brown as a berry. His dark complexion kept him from touring at Princeton's (N.J.) American Boychoir School in 1956 out of fear audiences would consider the school had become integrated. After a pedophile attack by the school's guidance counselor, he found solace after his participation in a Carnegie Hall's Annex to perform the same Mozard sonata for an audience of Louis Armstrong.
Rock 'n' roll embraced his soul as he obsessed over watching American Bandstand on TV. Once Loika started writing poetry, he joined the 1968 peace and love generation in Hollywood, California, wrote for both newspapers in Miami, and grieved over John Lennon's assassination.
After relocating to a tony section of Pennsylvania, he drove a limousine back and forth into the Manhattan building where Lennon had died, and found happiness with his ultimate love, an unapologetic lesbian who danced on Bandstand.

EAN: 9798295696657

Languages: English

View full details