"Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn marks the debut of a poet of deep feeling, one who filters the 'pear light of hope' through daily existence and who recognizes each 'odd hour... pressed by love.' In poems resplendent with 'creation's frenzy, ' with jazz, lovers, and 'Noah's lucky ones, ' those creatures great and small, Howard Faerstein acknowledges a world, past and present, that remains 'wonderful even with death.'" -Michael Waters, author of Gospel Night