it's been more than 3 decades since I met Tony Trigilio when he was a student at Kent. our circles overlapped in library & town. I remember us reading on campus together. & when he left we kept in touch. he was one of those whose work we chose to include in A Gathering of Poets. & I sent him one of my ties for the piece "Tie One On."
today he is a celebrated poet & writing teacher in Chicago where I last saw him for breakfast too many years ago. & he has become famous for his series of poems based on the tv series "Dark Shadows."
I now have the third book of these poems -- Ghosts of the Upper Floor. & what an utter joy to find myself quoted in Tony's collection. of course I had to include this in Alex in Movieland. I love this layering or what Tony calls an accumulation. it's there in my long serial work & in his.
thank you old friend. & let us both keep on accumulating.
today he is a celebrated poet & writing teacher in Chicago where I last saw him for breakfast too many years ago. & he has become famous for his series of poems based on the tv series "Dark Shadows."
I now have the third book of these poems -- Ghosts of the Upper Floor. & what an utter joy to find myself quoted in Tony's collection. of course I had to include this in Alex in Movieland. I love this layering or what Tony calls an accumulation. it's there in my long serial work & in his.
thank you old friend. & let us both keep on accumulating.
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| (from "Tie One On") |
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