Good Hope Road: Collected Poems, 1999-2009

Good Hope Road: Collected Poems, 1999-2009

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-03-08

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 1257055402

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All the favorites, including "Young and Immortal," "15 Miles Out of Madison," "Catholic Stripper," "Rouge Blush," "Catholic Guilt," "Grow Young with Me," "Let's Pretend It's Sunday," "Oh Felix Culpa," "Memories of Eden," and many, many more.


The Knowledge of Good and Evil

The Knowledge of Good and Evil

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-03-06

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1458397351

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The final masterpiece of the Life of Easter series. Poetry, journals, letters, dreams, adventures, from Milwaukee to the Oregon Coast to Seattle and back.


Schwag

Schwag

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-07

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1300304243

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Schwag picks up where Young and Immortal left off, with the introspective poet Eugene and his mischievous muse Horace and their friend Miriam living up their early Twenties on the cusp of the Millenium on the East Side of Milwaukee. Schwag explores the questions of loyalty, addiction, the American Way, casual sex and obsessive love, honesty, meaningless hedonism and significant bullshit. Schwag is not in Oprah's book club. Schwag is the book you borrowed from the bad kid on the playground. Schwag is cheap workingman's dope.


The Tower of Babel: How the Fall of Man Found Us in the Age of Terror

The Tower of Babel: How the Fall of Man Found Us in the Age of Terror

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-02-21

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1257117963

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The Tower of Babel, How the Fall of Man found us in the Age of Terror, or Old and Burnt-Out is the next chapter in the Life of Easter, the literary saga in scrapbook memoirs of a mysterious yet familiar freethinking young dude named Eugene Baxter. Toking his way from New Mexico to Milwaukee to Las Vegas and back to Milwaukee, Eugene tells it how it is about love, existentialism, 9/11, Iraq, drugs, religion, friendship, and poetry. Horace is back and so is Miriam plus a baby and along comes Molly and a bunch of cats and a dog and it's all one happy crappy American home at the turn of the Millennium.


Hotel

Hotel

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-07

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1300303891

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The omniscient protagonist checks himself into a hotel room for a week with the mission of getting some good writing done in isolation. Every night "at" the "hotel" becomes a different chapter exploring a different fetish "written" out in a dream-like fantasy world where esoterica meets erotica in this meta-book within a book as the author's developing romantic passion for his muse is played out in all its twists and turns. What begins as a lonely tale about a writer and transforms into an erotic sampler of S&M, catholic schoolgirl/teacher, medical, religious, occult, and poetic fantasies, blossoms into the most powerful literary love epic since Dante's Divine Comedy.


My Catechism

My Catechism

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-07

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1300372680

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The Prequel. The first book in the Life of Easter series. Birth to adolescence. The pangs of a Catholic puberty. Poetry, journals, dreams, and essays.


Somewhere Along the Line

Somewhere Along the Line

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-03-27

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1257124722

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The idea was to create what I would've considered the ultimate utopia, create a character reflective of myself, and have him begin to question and challenge the perfection of that utopia. It was the ultimate mental exercise in open-mindedness. In its imaginative satire, the book raises many questions from all sides of the coin.


Young and Immortal

Young and Immortal

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-07

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1105935566

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an excruciatingly honest portrayal of adolescence from the conscience of a mild-mannered, sensitive narrator contemplating the quirks of his stormy friendship with this obnoxious, manipulative, irresponsible brute of an incidental muse. From white upper-middle class suburban Cedarburg, Wisconsin to the streets of Milwaukee, this odd pair finds a common bond in drugs, girls, and music as their discordant values develop, are tested, and change with the coming of age and pressures of society. With thoughtful commentary, this scrapbook-like memoir is colored with anecdotes, poems, letters, and perspective character asides, set against the backdrop of the current events and popular music of the time, from Cobain's suicide to the Clinton scandal to the Packers winning the Super Bowl. Confronting the more crude aspects of growing up that popular literature would otherwise skip over, it puts the "adult" back in "young adult" literary fiction.


Anomalee

Anomalee

Author: Tommy Anthony

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-02-06

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1458384977

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The further shenanigans of sensitive poet Eugene Baxter, the next installment in the Life of Easter, and the first in the Adventures of the Prodigal Son. The Poet & the Virgin meet and fall in love in the smoky Midwest, just as the former is finally finishing college and the latter is just now looking at colleges. It is war time. And the people want a new president. Eugene is delivering pizzas to them with his faithful dog on his lap, a joint in his hand, and a Springsteen bootleg from The River tour cranking out some crooner about girls and cars from a buzzy stereo. The good dog licks tears from our hero's eyes, missing his young blue-eyed blonde with the bee-stung lips and thick-rimmed glasses, gone rainy Northwest. The tortured writer delivers another pizza. Another car bomb goes off in Iraq. And the one that got away, her name is Anomalee. This is the story of The Virgin & The Poet, in love, in times of war, in their Sunday Best Birthday Suits, through poetry, letters, dreams, and diaries.


99 Poems

99 Poems

Author: Dana Gioia

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1555979254

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So much of what we live goes on inside— The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches Of unacknowledged love are no less real For having passed unsaid. What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. —from “Unsaid” Dana Gioia has long been celebrated as a poet of sharp intelligence and brooding emotion with an ingenious command of his craft. 99 Poems: New & Selected gathers for the first time work from across his career, including many remarkable new poems. Gioia has not arranged this selection chronologically but instead has organized it by theme in seven sections: Mystery, Place, Remembrance, Imagination, Stories, Songs, and Love. The result is a book that reveals and renews the pleasures, consolations, and sense of wonder that poetry bestows.