Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World
Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
Ed Smith's work hits a nerve with today's poetry readers, as David Trinidad and his collaborators saw when they published and wrote about it on the Poetry Foundation blog and in Court Green journal and received an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response. Ed's circle of friends was extremely close, and writers like Amy Gerstler, Dennis Cooper, Bruce Hainley, Jerome Sala, and others will be eager to support the book.
Ed Smith (1957–2005) was a poet involved in the punk and alternative arts scenes in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. His books were Fantasyworld (1983) and Tim’s Bunnies (1988). His poems appeared in Rolling Stone, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter, and other publications. Smith also worked as an animator on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues.
David Trinidad is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, collabora-tions, and edited volumes. These include Swinging on a Star (2017), Notes on a Past Life (2016), Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011), and Plasticville (2000), finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Trinidad is editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (2011), which won a Lambda Literary Award. He is a professor of poetry in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College, Chicago.
