Poetry. RUB OUT is a trilogy of experimental verse novels: "Rub Out," a meditation on Whitey Bulger and other Boston mobsters, Concord transcendentalists and the disappearance of a young woman; "Breezy Point," a lament set in New York City's seaside community of that name; and "Tell On You," a prose poem sequence focusing on boxing, Las Vegas comics and a corpse that washes ashore in Brooklyn.
Author City: CAMBRIDGE, MA USA
Ed Barrett is the author of nine books of poetry including a trilogy of Boston-based prose-poem novels published by Pressed Wafer comprising BOSSTON (2008), KEVIN WHITE (2007) and RUB OUT (2004). His latest book is DOWN NEW UTRECHT AVENUE (Pressed Wafer, 2011). Barrett lives in Cambridge, MA, and teaches in the MIT Writing Program.