Poetry. Red Sox pitcher Dice-K Masukaza, an MBTA Transit copy from Belfast, the Irish mob in Southie, Fan Pier development, the Institute of Contemporary Art, fallen politician and radio talk-show host Tom Finneran, the poet John Wieners, Ralph Waldo "The Rifleman" Emerson and Deborah Hussey Thoreau, Boston School Committee member and anti-busing advocate Louise Day Hicks, State Senator Diane Wilkerson, the ever present (and ever absent) mobster and FBI informant Whitey Bulger: BOSSTON completes Ed Barrett's trilogy of Boston-based prose-poem novels that includes RUB OUT and KEVIN WHITE.

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.