{"product_id":"9781080544486","title":"Lauren: Draw \u0026 Write Notebook Personalized with Name for Girls who Love Ballet Dancing \/ With Picture Space and dashed mid-line","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. \"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\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003cem\u003eDark Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eDark Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e being preempted by Watergate coverage, the weird day the show went from black and white to color. But if Trigilio seems to be in the zeitgeist—\u003cem\u003eDark Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e remade by Tim Burton, \u003cem\u003eDark Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e as referenced in \u003cem\u003eMad Men\u003c\/em\u003e—he is also solidly planted in the universal. A boy and his mother, his brother, his father. The spirit and death. Blood—as in relation. Blood as in sex and violence. Couplets (rhyming and not), anaphora, elegies, sonnets, and a ghazal beautifully frame personal and cultural anxiety.\"—Denise Duhamel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Long before \u003cem\u003eTwilight\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eTrue Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, there was Barnabas Collins haunting the national psyche—a vampire the poet Tony Trigilio met before he met language itself, through watching the \u003cem\u003eDark Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e soap as a very young child with his mother. In this tour- de-force of a long poem, Trigilio reveals how our pop culture invades the very core of our imagination with irresistible magical images such as ghost girls, psychic boys, 'sea tramps,' and 'paranormal flowers' of all varieties. But what he also shows is that while (to paraphrase Wittgenstein) 'our pictures hold us captive,' we can repossess them and ourselves through our creative acts. Anyone who wants to understand what's behind our cultural obsession with vampires better get this book right away.\"—Jerome Sala\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021447839984,"sku":"9781080544486","price":6.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781080544486_p0.jpg?v=1763678935","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781080544486","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}