Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems by Trinidad, David

Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems

This magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we...
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Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems by Trinidad, David

Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems

$43.03

Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems

$43.03
Author: David Trinidad
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have. A worthy successor to James Schuyler, Trinidad writes soulfully and sometimes photorealistically about the melancholy threshold where dolls and stars become inner objects--dirty, glamorous, destructible. Jacqueline Susann meets Sei Shonagon? Trinidad manages to combine neo-formalist abstraction with dripping gorgeous figuration: Bonnard's wet dream.--Wayne Koestenbaum

This is a volume celebratory in tone, panoramic in scope, funny, and genuinely moving. Trinidad is at the center of what's relevant in his art. And this collection is more vital and more enjoyable than any single performance he has given thus far.--D.A. Powell

Trinidad attends to the present to see into the past with such needle point precision it's like encountering a perfectly appointed movie set where personal memory crosses intimately with cultural memory. Poetic form in Trinidad's hands is a metaphor for staking a claim on the material world even as it slips away in a shimmery Hollywood dissolve--a desperate, doomed reclamation of all that can never be held long enough.--Robyn Schiff

Utterly deadpan and astonishingly fine is how Publishers Weekly described the poems of David Trinidad. And here is the collection all David Trinidad fans have been waiting for--the first book to have works from all his previous books along with forty new poems: Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems.



Author: David Trinidad
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: 09/06/2011
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.00w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781933527475


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2011
Booklist 09/01/2011 pg. 30
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2012 pg. 7
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2011 pg. 63

About the Author
Trinidad, David: - David Trinidad (born 1953) is an American poet. Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California. In the early 1980s, he was one of a group of poets who were active at the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California. Other members of this group included Dennis Cooper, Bob Flanagan, and Amy Gerstler. As editor of Sherwood Press, he published books by Cooper, Flanagan, Gerstler, Tim Dlugos, Alice Notley, and others. In 1988, Trinidad relocated to New York City. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College in 1990. He taught at Rutgers University, the New School, and Princeton University. His collection PLASTICVILLE (2000) was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets. In 2002, Trinidad moved to Chicago to teach at Columbia College Chicago, where he co-founded the literary journal Court Green. In addition to his own books of poetry, Trinidad has edited A FAST LIFE: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TIM DLUGOS (Nightboat Books, 2011) and the earlier selected Powerless (Serpent's Tail, 1995), Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (with Maxine Scates, 2001), and Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (with Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, 2007). Trinidad's personal papers are archived at the Fales Library at New York University.

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