David Trinidad

"Struck by the Magic 8 Ball sound in his favorite lines from Emily Dickinson's poems, poet David Trinidad chose seventy-eight quotes, the number of cards in a tarot deck, and found they worked. Dip into the deck with a question for Emily. She may tell you "All - is the price of All -" or "It's finer - not to know - "--Container.

A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press

Dickinson

Poetry. "In NOTES ON A PAST LIFE, David Trinidad exorcises the ghosts of New York with a compulsively readable, wrenching memoir in verse. His "Goodbye to All That" offers a critique of ambition, an ode to community, and a sip of the poison that poetry is, in the end, the antidote to."—Eula Biss "David Trinidad's poems in NOTES ON A PAST LIFE are breathy and breathtaking. Forgoing traditional formal gestures, these memoir-verses burst with energy, finding their own shapes. No one writes nostalgia like Trinidad. He chronicles friendships with poets and the influence of poets who came before. He chronicles a glorious love affair and its aftermath, bad jobs, art, ambition, fame, 9/11, AIDS, dreams, meals, real estate, ghosts, lyrical gossip, the slights that haunt us, and the hurts we rise above. NOTES ON A PAST LIFE is a mature, wise, and enlightening book."—Denise Duhamel "This reader was depressed by the rancorous settling of scores but exalted by the homage paid to the great dead—a record of lived life, every second of it, and a love letter to New York (a letter written after a disappointing but gripping affair)."—Edmund White "NOTES ON A PAST LIFE catalogs in "Trinidadian" detail an outsider's relationship to the insider world of New York City poetry—cutthroat parties, fragile egos, heartbreaking losses, as many endings as beginnings. Trinidad refuses the safe distance of "the speaker" in these autobiographical, intimate (sometimes searing) poems. This is a book for outsiders and insiders, for romantics and cynics. Some will be pissed. Some will be thrilled. And everyone will be "dishing" (as poets do) about this astonishing book, afraid to admit how much they love it."—Aaron Smith

Notes on a Past Life

The collection that David Trinidad fans have been anticipating for years—soulful works of tenderness, wit, and formal ingenuity.

New and Selected Poems

Dear Prudence

Tiny Moon Notebook

Denise Duhamel

Maureen Seaton

"More than 130 poems by more than 200 poets (& friends), plus notes on how (& why) they got together" -- P. [4] of cover.

A Half-century of Collaborative American Poetry

Saints of Hysteria

Gillian McCain

Jeffery Conway

Poetry. California Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Film. Dante's Inferno meets the 1967 movie Valley of the Dolls in this collaborative descent into a Hollywood camp classic. Over ten years in the writing, the first installment of this epic poetic conversation sees poets Jeffery Conway, Gillian McCain, and David Trinidad pair up with their respective Virgil-esque guides: Frank O'Hara, Sharon Tate, and Anne Sexton. Our three poets follow the film's heroines—Anne, Neely, and Jennifer—backstage into the murky circles of Showbiz and PoBiz. Down, down, down they go. Anything can happen: Allen Ginsberg kicks a talented poet out of the show, Joan Crawford makes a drunken visitation, the heads of ambitious MFA poetry students roll! An impressive array of contemporary poets guest star: D.A. Powell (with his guide Tennessee Williams), Wayne Koestenbaum as Joey Bishop, Denise Duhamel as Sharon Tate's mother, and Aaron Smith as the messenger boy—and what a message he delivers! There's nothing else like it. Add to cart now!

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