Oops(Updated) (Selected Poems 1987-1993 by ChrisStroffolino, DavidBaratier Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 1994 by Pavement Saw Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-886350-75-5, ISBN: 1-886350-75-2
Oops(Updated) by ChrisStroffolino, DavidBaratier Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1994 by Pavement Saw Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-886350-76-2, ISBN: 1-886350-76-0
"Often considered Stroffolino's homage to protracted adolescence, the poems in Oops got Stroffolino's page-based poetry to a national audience and set the tone for the subsequent books of the 1990s."
"One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, Twelfth Night was written at the same time as Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida, and whilst it shares their fascination with sex, death and confused identities, its exuberant comedy and linguistic inventiveness rises above the introspection of these plays. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are separated in a storm, which washes them both up at different points on the shores of Illyria. Believing ea ..."
"Crisis Chronicles Press is ecstatic to announce the publication of Chris Stroffolino's long-awaited new book, Drinking From What I Once Wore: Selected and Recent Poems. Drinking From What I Once Wore is 6x9" perfect bound, over 100 pages, and features cover art by Rachel Thoele. ISBN: 978-1-64092-970-8. This volume features 49 works including "Cusps," "The Dart of the Eel," "First World Problems," "Variations of 21st Century Pop Songs," ..."
"When I told an old friend, who knew me when I was a distin-guished visiting poet in resi-dence, that I was now teaching freshman composition at a mostly non-white inner-city com-munity college, she texted back, “you’re slumming it….”or, look at everything, and ask: ‘Is that human culture, or is it white culture? —Chris Stroffolino"
" The M(F)A in Non-Poetry would include everything currently called poetry...and more. The M(F)A in Non-Poetry could help get us back in touch with those pre-specialized, "pre-literary" genres (whether high-school journals, diaries, letters never sent, or tweets), when writing was just writing, and freestyling was just freestylin't to breathe some fresh air into the poet's only club! The M(F)A in Non-Poetry asks contemporary definitions ..."
"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 Most Urgent Literary Anthology of the 21st Centurywe can’t build a wall. we can only spout pure water again and again and drown his lies. Eileen MylesRacism, xenophobia, misogyny and their related malaises are to the U.S. what whiskey is to an alcoholic. The current occupant of the White House won the election yipping, against possible recovery, “Drinks are on me!” The rich, multitudinous voices in this anthology variously ..."
"Poetry. Anthology. AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW (AMERICAN) POETS features the work of thirty-five young poets who represent "a new opening of the field for American poetry [and] a turn to living figures and essential issues" --Paul Hoover. The poems are characteristically aware of the traditions they are falling out of step with, making a "'thinking' compendium of the planetary poetry scene and a boon to the ongoing struggle to keep the world sa ..."
""An Avec Sampler" features new work by seven writers -- of poetry and experimental fiction -- who have been featured in editor Cydney Chadwick's critically acclaimed magazine Avec, out of Penngrove, California. Included are selections from Laura Moriarty's The Case, a selection of five poems by Chris Stroffolino, Laynie Browne from The Agency Of Wind, George Albon from Step, Stephen-Paul Martin from Not Quite Fiction, five stories by Li ..."
The Death of a Selfish Altruist Tales & Poems from a Minor League Culture Worker by ChrisStroffolino Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 2017 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-979353-19-9, ISBN: 1-979353-19-0
"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,”—especi ..."