“Dan Bejar is a curmudgeon, or at least he wants us to think so. There are three versions of "Times Square" on Poison Season: the elegiac opener is all tenderness, the dramatic, string-laden closer all tension. In between is a romp straight out of 1975: Young Americans, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Coney Island Baby. To Bejar's disdain, this is the original incarnation. "It's a straight-ahead song ”
