Published by The Press of the Third Mind
Perfect Bound, 70 pages
5½ by 8½ inches 2012
ISBN# 978-0-9800257-3-9
$10.00
About The Author
Vittorio Carli teaches film, literature and writing at Moraine Valley College and Richard Daley College in the Chicago area. He has also taught as a free-lance teacher at numerous colleges in the area.
He has written many reviews of films and music, cultural and performance events. His work can be seen at reelmoviecritic.com and in the magazines and periodicals: Dialogue, Venus, Chicago Artists News, The Daily Herald, Star Newspapers, Tunnel Rat, and Letter eX.
His poems have been published in: Best of Chicago Poetry, Online! the Chicago Poetry Renaissance, Cafe Review, Rambunctious Review, Dissident, Struggle, Religious Humanism and many other anthologies and magazines.
He is well known for his celebrity interviews and he has interviewed: Paul Hoover, Karen Finley, Moby, Katherine Kronos, Chris Connelly and many others.
This is his first book.
Contents
The Night Limbo Ceased to Exist
Titled Untitled
Poem with Vacuum
Ingmar Bergman’s Worst Nightmare
Sylvia Plath’s Dream Wedding
The Raggedy Ann Goddess
Suddenly, The Pipes of Pan!
Pet Shoppe Dog
The New Math?
Elegy for John Cage
A Lawrence Welk Tribute to Captain Beefheart
Regina
Karen Finley at the Double Door, Chicago
Friday, December 10, 1999
Rant Number B 1/2 for Joe Roarty
The Man Who Spoke for the First Time
Professing Arrogance
Bloody Nonsense
Lovely Lady
Lunch at Les Brothers
Jesus’ Kid Brother Speaks
A Personal Apocalypse
Ruth at the Ever So Secret Order of the Lamprey
Lady Sisyphus
The Death of Cool, December 18, 2001
Ogre Poem
Elegy for Lester Bowie (2000)
Poem for My Friend Who Hates Movies (for J.J. Jameson)
Snow Queen
Onomatopoeia Poem: Elegy for Robert Bresson (November 2, 2002)
Lisa Dances to the Persuaders at Puffers on July 7, 2002
The Legend of the Golden Elvis
The Trouble with Librarians (for Andrea)
Made in the U.S.A.
Ballad of an Adjunct
Donna
Ode to All the People I Love (May 24, 2005)
Viva Las Vegas
Bubble 1
Sonnet for Katherine
A Faustian Deal III
In Praise of Woody Allen
Girl on the Blue Line at 2:35 a.m. on April 2nd, 2006
POEtry by Vittorio Carli (for Maureen Gibbon)
Glory Days: A Poem of Repetition
Whatever Happened to Shagg?
Vomiting Words at the Mingus Awareness Project (for Dan Godston)
Poem in Commemoration of People Who Died in 2006
Nu Poem Nu Mental
Theological Parody
Sample Poems
The Night Limbo Ceased to Exist
Somewhere there’s a place that isn’t a place
condoned by a church that isn’t a church.
Suddenly word reaches it that it never
existed even though it exists
and it disappears.
Another day a group of theologians that aren’t theologians
decide that the Lord’s Prayer was never the lord’s
prayer and it too ceases to exist.
Deep in the bowels of hell, a heretic who is not a heretic
smiles when he hears that he is no longer a heretic, and
he reappears even though he never disappeared.
In the newspapers, the reporters who aren’t really
reporters report that the shroud of Turin
wasn’t worn by Jesus. When word reaches
the blonde, blue eyed deity, he can’t
help but die again even though he’s
already dead. He frowns and
ceases to exist.
Ruth at the Ever So Secret Order of the Lamprey, October 7, 2001
Long haired
Girl-woman
– Struts in,
Wearing
Tall boots
And a mauve
Leather jacket
Proud as Nico,
Amongst the art pieces,
Remnants of a dead civilization,
Reminders that art once existed.
Big eyed, full of wonder
This quiet, bubbly, effervescent
Buoyant, living spirit of the 60’s,
Reveals herself in conversation as
Eagerly and joyfully as a child
Unwrapping a present for Christmas.
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