David R Trinidad

A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos

A Fast Life establishes Tim Dlugos—the witty and innovative poet at the heart of the New York literary scene in the late 1970s and 1980s and seminal poet of the AIDS epidemic—as one of the most distinctive and energetic poets of our time. This definitive volume contains all of the poems Dlugos publi...

Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry

Collaborative poetry — poems written by one or more people — grew out of word games played by French surrealists in the 1920s. It was taken up a decade later by Japan’s Vou Club and then by Charles Henri Ford, who created the chainpoem, composed by poets who mailed their lines all over the world. Af...

The Late Show: Poems

“Deeply personal, yet coolly postmodern, no other writer besides David Trinidad makes the interface between our private memories and our cultural ones seem so seamless. Variously giddy, gossipy, melancholy, obsessive, and euphoric, Trinidad's voice has an amazing plasticity as he slips between genre...

Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera

"David Trinidad turns the paste jewels of pop art into the real thing."—James Schuyler"In David Trinidad's Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera, the moment-by-moment particulars of traditional haiku collide with the time-stretching serial narratives of contemporary soap operas. As Trinidad's haiku chart...

Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. "This magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have. A worthy successor to James Schuyler, Trinidad writes soulfully and sometimes photorealistically about the melancholy threshold where dolls and stars become inner objects—dirty, glamorou...

Notes on a Past Life

In Notes on a Past Life, David Trinidad exorcises the ghosts of New York with a compulsively readable, wrenching memoir in verse. His “Goodbye to All That” offers a critique of ambition, an ode to community, and a sip of the poison that poetry is, in the end, the antidote to. —Eula Biss David Trin...

Plasticville

"Plasticville is about the bliss of collecting, invention, and valuing the bits and pieces of popular detritus that constitute our lives. . . . Trinidad's warm intelligence makes poetry deft and true, dazzling and vulnerable, plastic and classic."—Molly Peacock

Answer Song (High Risk)

Whether chronicling 1960s sitcoms or the murder of Sharon Tate at the hand of Charles Manson's family, this collection of Trinidad's poetry explores popular American cultural themes, and delves deep into the fears that haunt so many suburban lives.

Hand over Heart

Strong Place

November

Three Stories

Living Doll

Saints of Hysteria: A Half-century of Collaborative American Poetry

The Late Show: Poems