In the Here There: (Notes to a Poetry Syllabus) - Softcover

Stroffolino, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1963908155 ISBN 13: 9781963908152

Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

From The Introduction

In a recent essay, “The Case for Never Reading the Book Jacket,” Tajia Issen writes: “Rarely do I buy a book because I was seduced by the summary on the back or inside flap…” I share Issen’s skepticism towards book jacket copy, but my attitude is slightly different. I try to read the book first, and when I’m finished reading it once, allow myself to read the blurbs and reviews to see what others say, and then go back to my reading, feeling alive in the ensemble of a plurality of exteriorized voices with different emphases of the same book. I thus believe the reader here could find it more useful if they read the books discussed before they read my essays about them.”

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About the Author

Chris Stroffolino has published 6 books of poetry, most of which are out of print, including Speculative Primitive (2005), Stealer's Wheel (1999), and Light as A Fetter (1997). Most recently, Crisis Chronicles published Drinking from What I Once Wore (2018). A book of prose reminiscences at the intersection of the personal and cultural, Death of a Selfish Altruist, was published by Iniquity Press in 2017. Radio Survivor.org published his history of the corporate takeover of radio, Radio Orphan, in sequential form, in 2012. He co-authored a study of Shakespeare's 12th Night with David Rosenthal (IDG Books, 2001). Spuyten Duyvil has also published an earlier collection of essays on mostly contemporary poetry, Spin Cycle (2001), a prequel to this book. He has released 4 albums of songs under his own name, including Single-Sided Doubles (2009), Predator Drone (2011), The Griffith Park Sessions (2014), and 12 Songs of Goodbye, and 1 Song of Hello. (2019). Recent poetry has appeared in New American Writing, 14 Hills, Bennington Review, Volt, Konch, Chiron Review, Big Hammer, and The Town: An Anthology of Oakland Poets (Nomadic Press, 2023). He is currently seeking a publisher for Medi(t)ations, his first full length book of new poetry in 20 years. He has taught Critical Thinking, and, sometimes, Creative Writing, at Laney College in Oakland since 2008, where he lives in a closet with no heat but a piano in a hallway.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1963908155
• ISBN 13: 9781963908152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 418