November 21, 2004

Feature/Book release/Now it can be told

By Tony Brown

Went great. (Even I think so.)

Set list:

Cante Jondo for the Left Side
In America
Getting Ahead
The Last Word (aka “Let’s Fuck”)
Punk
Seafoam Green
The Kathy Bag
Chrysler
Mission Statement
DIY

As promised, a real old school set, with the exception of “The Last Word” and, comparatively, “Cante Jondo.” A good 70% off page, which is rare for me nowadays.

I feel like this stage of my poetic life is really over. The poems aren’t being retired, but I’m letting them go.

One more volume to this go-round, maybe in February, and then it’s no more chapbooks…and onto more magazine submissions and eventually the manuscript.

Sold about half the print run of the new book. (Time to make some more before DC, I think.)

I’ll start mailing them to you blurbers when you let me know your addresses…hint, hint…

Thanks to all in attendance; you made me very happy. I hope I did the same for you.

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The big secret I mentioned earlier is that I’m going back to school. I’m entering the Bachelor’s in American Studies program at Lesley University in January — a low-residency intensive program that gives me my long-delayed BA in twenty-two months.

After years of foot dragging, abortive attempts at re-entering broken by breakdowns and job responsibilities, I think I’m well enough and generally pissed enough at my inertia to do this.

Let the games begin.

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