A01=David Trinidad
Author_David Trinidad
Basho
California authors
California poets
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collages
Dusty Springfield
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Gay poetry
haiku
homophobia
LGBTQ poetry
list poems
Los Angeles poets
Los Angeles writers
odes
Pitt Poetry Series
prose poems
sonnets
Product details
- ISBN 9780822967408
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Mar 2025
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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New Playlist holds a variety of poetic forms: odes, found, haiku, prose, list, collages, one-liners, sonnets, and more. With his trademark wit and inventiveness, David Trinidad “plays” with these forms as if they were toys. He creates a Wikipedia cento in which each line illustrates how little is known of sixty-five ancient Greek poets. He gives us an itinerary of “Things to Do” in ten 1970s disaster films. He catalogs Sylvia Plath’s recipe cards and all the references to beer in a book by Bernadette Mayer. His subjects are as “fun” as his forms: pop singer Dusty Springfield, Marcel Proust, Bashō, Hollywood movies and actresses, old cartoons, a prom dress thief loose in a girls’ dorm. But “play” does not preclude seriousness, as Trinidad addresses physical scars, encounters with homophobia, and the wonders and wounds of childhood.
David Trinidad is the author of Sleeping with Bashō, Digging to Wonderland, and PeytonPlace: A Haiku Soap Opera. He is also the editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith, and Divining Poets: Dickinson, an Emily Dickinson tarot deck. Trinidad lives in Los Angeles.
