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This book revives questions of religious and political authority in poetic prophecy.

Trigilio's way includes knowing not only what one is supposed to know but also what he calls "arcane." By delivering his ideas convincingly, and with his own life as proof, he makes this book a worthwhile read. -Eileen R. Tabios"--

" Challenging us to take responsibility for why we yearn to believe, or if not-- what to expect." - Susan Howe

Poetry. In this collection, selected by Joseph Millar as the winner of the Three Candles First Book Prize, Tony Trigilio deftly weaves cultural references as varied as Hawaii Five-O and Lee Harvey Oswald into a stunning collection that ...

"There's so much to admire in Tony Trigilio's addictive new book (the third in his delicious Dark Shadows poetry soap opera): the obsessive vision, the light and dark of emotion, and the everyday world brushing eerily--sometimes hilariously ...

This is just the first installment of what promises to be a classic American coffin-shaped (I hope) epic poem.--David Trinidad Tony Trigilio has taken on an epic task in THE COMPLETE DARK SHADOWS (OF MY CHILDHOOD).

The book examines the poignant and disturbing intersection between the underground Usenet forums existing before 9/11 and post 9/11 terroristic paranoia.

Poetry. "Tony Trigilio's HISTORIC DIARY (named after Lee Harvey Oswald's account of his time in the Soviet Union) excavates the nightmarish record of the first Kennedy assassination, its auguries and aftermath, with a blue fury and an ...

This book is haunted--how could it not be? --not only by Barnabas Collins, the doddering vampire who enfolds and catalyzes the show's time-traveling retreat to 1795 New England and back to its present, but also James Earl Ray, the Boston ...