<p>Poetry. In Chris Stroffolino's third proper book of poetry, he gives us arefined collection of poems that are his best to date. Pam Rehm saysof SPECULATIVE PRIMITIVE, "There is something very physical about theway Chris Stroffolino uses language. [Here] is an invigorating walkthrough the sensuality of Stroffolino's thought processes. It's partplaying at language and part longing for another way, something otherthan language, to express the emotions one feels, not only for otherpeople, but for moments. This is his best work yet. I only wish Icould have said something about his relation to music and how you cansee it all over these poems."</p>

Speculative Primitive

Literature & Fiction

Stroffolino, Chris

Contemporary

Tougher Disguises

The poems in this book will spin and jump and dance before you.

Steeler's Wheel (Lingo Book Series)

Poetry

Hard Press Editions

<p>Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books. Death of a Selfish Altruist is a memoir in which the personal gets tangled in the political, and cultural transformations of American in the last 3rd of the 20th century into the first decade of the 21st. It is also a memoir that distrusts the conventions of memoir (short on narrative, but long on opinions). Though it traces Stroffolino's various social activities as a "minor league culture worker,"-especially as a poet, teacher, and musician, and is clearly a working out of trauma caused by such "purely personal" experiences as becoming disabled, unemployed, and subsequently homeless, strains to connect them-by synthesizing various history myths of progress, and decay-- to the larger cultural phenomena investigative reporter Scott Timberg referred to as the 21st century "Culture Crash." With a degree of gallows humor, Stroffolino proposes some off-beat solutions to some of today's cultural issues in hopes of re-establishing a sense of the commons in an attempt to survive dominant cultural trends of privatization, gentrification, the 21st technocracy, as well as more perennial issues such as he way the same old mind-body dualism that has been used to further racism, classism, and sexism is employed by 21st century Culture Tzars to keep us divided.it is also an attempt to further a cultural discussion</p>

The Death of a Selfish Altruist: Tales & Poems from a Minor League Culture Worker

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

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