Tag: Albert DeGenova
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“nighthawks” a cinepoem, produced by Max DeGenova, words and voice by Albert DeGenova
The poem “Nighthawks” written and spoken by Albert DeGenova was conceptualized and produced by Albert’s son Max DeGenova.
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Thanksgiving Poem
Young buck drags ……….his hindquarters – eyes for escape – ………across the unlit road. The car ahead ………had swerved, pulled …off the road our friends out of their car ………shaking, pacing, Oh Jeez! Oh Jeez! in a field, behind ………the struggling, the useless legs. Call the police. An accident. Flashlight. A shot. Heaving steamy breath.
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What Anarchy Sounds Like
“Get your ass up on the stage now, gotta rage until you die.” — from the lyric “Lovely Generation” by Cole DeGenova Anarchy sounds like anger rhymed with disappointment. Young poets don’t write gentle blue wildflowers, glorious orange sunset. They don’t have that quiet vocabulary. This lovely generation wears their words inked into their skin
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dwell in possibility
Albert DeGenova is the author of two books of poetry, The Blueing Hours and BackBeat, as well as two chapbooks, Postcards to Jack and A Tender Spot. He is also the publisher and co-editor of After Hours, a journal of Chicago writing and art. DeGenova is a blues saxophonist and one-time contributing editor of Down
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Back Beat
The first edition of Back Beat was published by Norbert Blei’s Cross+Roads Press in 2001. Blei was familiar with the poetry of both DeGenova and Rossiter and had seen them perform together as the duo AvantRetro, a performance poetry presentation using musical accompaniment and other techniques to enhance the poetry readings. Both the poetry and