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 obsessive zeal that border on the Talmudic. What he finds there goes beyond chilling to a pure-product-of-America craziness that makes me tremble for my country. 'I am waiting // for someone to / ride me, the / locomotive of history,' Trigilio writes, and his ticket beyond the grave takes us, willy-nilly, on this scarifying, brilliant, and disturbing ride."—Rachel Loden

Author City: CHICAGO, IL USA

Tony Trigilio's books include the poetry collections HISTORIC DIARY (BlazeVOX Books, 2010) and THE LAMA'S ENGLISH LESSONS (Three Candles Press, 2060) and the critical monograph Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007). With Tim Prchal, he co-edited Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008). He is a member of the core poetry faculty at Columbia College Chicago, and is a co-founder and co-editor of Court Green.

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