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The complete Dark Shadows (of my childhood). Book 1 by Trigilio, Tony, 1966- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Poetry. "Barnabas Collins, kitsch vampire but source of poet Tony Trigilio's childhood nightmares, rises from his casket in the first sentence of this intrepid fever chart of a poem. Trigilio manages to create a riveting two-fold narrative--personal and TV- screen ekphrastic--out of piecemeal sentences (one per episode) that honor the most unlikely of poetic subjects: a cheaply produced, blooper-ridden, gothic-horror soap opera. This is just the first installment of what promises to be a classic American coffin-shaped (I hope) epic poem."--David Trinidad "Tony Trigilio has taken on an epic task in THE COMPLETE DARK SHADOWS (OF MY CHILDHOOD). Here, in Book 1, Trigilio uses the episodes as touchstones for his earliest memories, including nightmares, brought on by TV's dream factory. Watching Dark Shadows episodes on DVD almost fifty years later, alone or with friends, the speaker confesses, 'each time I rewind, it's something different.' He re-casts his past in terms of gruesome camp, excavation and repression. As I read through this poem I remember my outrage at Dark Shadows being preempted by Watergate coverage, the weird day the show went from black and white to color. But if Trig

Author

Trigilio, Tony, 1966-

Publisher

Blazevox [books]

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609643379

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities