Drinking From What I Once Wore is 6x9" perfect bound, over 100 pages, and features cover art by Rachel Thoele. ISBN: 978-1-64092-970-8. This volume features 49 works including "Cusps," "The Dart of the Eel," "First World Problems," "Variations of 21st Century Pop Songs," "2 Dramatic $onnets for the Con$umer $ociety," "Commercial Interruptions," and the Pushcart Prize nominated "Questions for Google Home."
Available for $12 US from Crisis Chronicles Press, 3431 George Avenue, Parma, Ohio 44134 USA. Pre-order now and we'll send it to you in December.
Love for Chris Stroffolino and Drinking From What I Once Wore:
"Maybe all life is preparing for 'The test/ We can only pass if we waste
no time/ thinking we can study for it.' If so, Chris Stroffolino's
carelessly brilliant poems would be as invaluable as cliff notes. In any
case they come in handy."
—John Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
"There is no line of thought in [Stroffolino’s] poetry that can’t or doesn’t kick out a set of veins pumping blood to and from the dramatic qualities of its existence or an inverted conversion of the optimal antidote to its own fiercely depicted frailties. Chris has fought in his writing for a poetry that is intimate, musical, invested equally in Shakespeare & Joe Strummer and intensely personal without giving up the demand of rhetoric to be a necessity of passion rather than a muted counterbalance. His new book varies the tempo and carries these things through.
—Anselm Berrigan, author of Something for Everybody
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| Chris Stroffolino photo by Jaime Borschuk |
—Noelle Kocot, author of Phantom Pains of Madness
About Chris Stroffolino:
Chris Stroffolino is the author of 4 full-length books of poetry, as well as the memoir Death of a Selfish Altruist, two books of essays in poetry and culture criticism and, with Dave Rosenthal, a study guide to Shakespeare’s 12th Night. He currently lives in Oakland, California, where he has taught writing at Laney College since 2008.
