[New-Poetry] Tony Trigilio

[Anny Ballardini]

Dear Friends,

My new chapbook of poems, WITH THE MEMORY, WHICH IS ENORMOUS, is coming out
next month from Main Street Rag Press.

The publisher is offering the chapbook at an advance price of $7 (regular
price $10) through Feb. 10.  To order a copy, go to the Main Street Rag
"Coming Soon" page, then scroll to the bottom until you see my listing:

http://www.mainstreetrag.com/store/ComingSoon.php

On that page, you can just click the "Add to Cart" button and the purchase
will be processed by PayPal.

More details below.

Yours,
Tony
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"How often I search for books like this one, books that give voice to the
human experience as one sees it, not as one wishes to see it.  These are
honest and serious meditations. At once political and personal, chilling and
poignant, they depict the desperation and hope that make up a daily life.
Like all great poems, they linger in the mind long after being read." (Nin
Andrews)

"At this moment of heightened interest in the average working-class
American, the poems in Tony Trigilio's WITH THE MEMORY, WHICH IS ENORMOUS
seem particularly relevant. The people in these poems are both ordinary and
unique, familiar and strange. Unsparing in detail and pitch-perfect in tone,
Trigilio's diction is always accurate and surprising as, trudging streets in
autumn, he writes: "My feet raved through clusters of leaves." If diction is
one measure of originality, imagery is another. In his fine poem,
"Arrhythmia,"" he observes: "His breath maneuvers the leaflets of the
heart." Still a third sign is the ability to perceive contradictions in our
ordinary social relations, as illustrated deftly in "Get There at 10:00 So
You Wont' Have to Stay for Lunch" where he notes: "There's nothing to say /
but we keep on talking" and "The two of them / holding hands, afraid of each
other." This is a writer who's paying attention, and attention is one of the
fundamental qualifications for the job of being a poet. Memory is enormous,
and Trigilio makes room for us in his, a memory we are glad to enter and
make our own." (Kurt Brown)

-- 
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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