Craft: A Memoir
Finalist for the Big Other Award for Non-Fiction. Part of the Chapter One series acclaimed by Publishers Weekly that supplements classroom instruction with real-world experiences. An exploration of the writer's craft through a series of short, linked personal essays. Each chapter features an anecdote from the author's development as a writer that illustrates craft elements central to his body of work. ,
Tony Trigilio’s recent books of poetry are Proof Something Happened (Marsh Hawk, 2021), selected by Susan Howe as winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, and Ghosts of the Upper Floor (BlazeVOX [books], 2019), the third installment in his multivolume cross-genre project, The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood). He is the author of two books of criticism, Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poet ics (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012) and “Strange Prophecies Anew” (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000).
