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By Myself (Paperback)
David Trinidad, D.A. Powell
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Poetry. If there were an award for chapbook of the year it would
surely be given to BY MYSELF: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. In the spirit of
Goethe's comment, "One is never satisfied with the portrait of a
person one knows," two celebrated poets, D.A. Powell and David
Trinidad, have collaborated to create a perfect portrait of an
unknown star in 300 lines by taking one sentence from each of 300
celebrity autobiographies. The result is poignant, poetic, and
hilarious--a perfect and imperishable performance.
Before writing this book, poet David Trinidad watched all 514
episodes of the infamous 1960s 'adult' primetime soap opera Peyton
Place and wrote a haiku for everyone. Fraught relationships,
courtroom cliffhangers and sensational storylines are condensed
into 17-syllable episodes, as stereotypic characters weather the
passing TV seasons. This haiku 'soap epic' is ingenious, funny and
totally addictive.
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New York Diary (Paperback)
Tim Dlugos; Edited by David Trinidad
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Divining Poets: Rumi (Cards)
Jalal al-Din Rumi; Edited by Brad Gooch; Translated by Brad Gooch, Maryam Mortaz; Edited by David Trinidad
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This is an exhilarating anthology remedying the clear lack of
collaborative poetry collections. Collaborative poetry grew out of
word games played by Surrealists in the 1920s and taken up later by
Japan's Vou Club and then by Charles Henri Ford, who created the
chainpoem, composed by poets who mailed their lines all over the
world. After WWII, the Beats' collaborative experiments resulted in
the famous "Pull My Daisy". The concept was embraced in the 1970s
by feminist poets as a way to find a collective female voice. Yet,
for all its rich history, virtually no collections of collaborative
poetry exist. This exhilarating anthology remedies this stark
omission. Featured are poems by as many as 18 people in a dizzying
array of forms: villanelles to ghazals, sonnets to somonkas,
pantoums to haiku, even quizzes, questionnaires and other
nonliterary forms. Collaborators' notes accompany many of the
poems, giving a fascinating glimpse into the creative process.
"A triumph, a contemporary satyrican."--D.A. Powell
This three-way, groundbreaking, e-mail deconstruction of "All
About Eve" is a treasure-trove of poetic forms, cinephile gossip
and literary visitations.
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