Drinking From What I Once Wore: Selected and Recent Poems - by Chris Stroffolino (CC#103)

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," "2 Dramatic $onnets for the Con$umer $ociety," "Commercial Interruptions," and the Pushcart Prize nominated "Questions for Google Home."

Where are you?

United States $12.00 USD Elsewhere $15.00 USD

Available for $12 US from Crisis Chronicles Press, 535 Parkside Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44143 USA.

Love for Chris Stroffolino and Drinking From What I Once Wore: 

"Maybe all life is preparing for 'The test/ We can only pass if we waste no time/ thinking we can study for it.' If so, Chris Stroffolino's carelessly brilliant poems would be as invaluable as cliff notes. In any case they come in handy."  

—John Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

"There is no line of thought in [Stroffolino’s] poetry that can’t or doesn’t kick out a set of veins pumping blood to and from the dramatic qualities of its existence or an inverted conversion of the optimal antidote to its own fiercely depicted frailties. Chris has fought in his writing for a poetry that is intimate, musical, invested equally in Shakespeare & Joe Strummer and intensely personal without giving up the demand of rhetoric to be a necessity of passion rather than a muted counterbalance. His new book varies the tempo and carries these things through.  

—Anselm Berrigan, author of Something for Everybody

Chris Stroffolino
photo by Jaime Borschuk

"Edgy and hip."  

—Noelle Kocot, author of Phantom Pains of Madness

Chris Stroffolino is the author of 4 full-length books of poetry, as well as the memoir Death of a Selfish Altruist, two books of essays in poetry and culture criticism and, with Dave Rosenthal, a study guide to Shakespeare’s 12th Night. He currently lives in Oakland, California, where he has taught writing at Laney College since 2008.

Meet the Author:

3/14/2019 (7:30 pm) - Chris Stroffolino and Friends at Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California 94704.