Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933527811 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Williams, Yeats, Marianne Moore, and “poor Keats.” --Ray Olson . Fortunately Trinidad, who James Schuyler said could “turn the paste jewels of pop art into the real thing” (though jewels or art?), does some of the best bitching this side of Dorothy Parker. Without ever getting too vulgar (hard to do, considering the inspiration), he’s astonishingly hilarious throughout, especially for poetry lovers when he paraphrases signature lines of T. “Eyes glued to bare / chest, bulge in towel.” “Great playground shot: / his ass in white pants.” There’s plenty of gawkable de
A hoot - and so clever! Patrick Dilley, Ph.D. A friend and I were binge-watching all of the episodes of Peyton Place a few years ago, and we would comment back and forth about the episodes. David Trinidad did that as well, but much more artistically. His haiku's skewer the story lines and characters, and deconstruct the meta-narrative (you don't need to know that's what he's doing to enjoy it). So good, I bought one and sent it to my friend!
This haiku soap epic is ingenious, funny, and totally addictive. Excerpts from Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera have been selected by Denise Duhamel for inclusion in Best American Poetry, 2013.. One irreverent haiku for each of the over five hundred prime time 1960s era "adult" soap opera episodes. As Trinidad's haiku chart the changing seasons, don't be surprised if the snow falling under moonlight is artificial, dumped by overworked stagehands off-camera. Fraught relationships, courtroom cliffhangers, and sensational storylines are condensed into seventeen-syllable episodes, as stereotypic characters weather the passing TV seasons. "David Trinidad turns the paste jewels of pop art into the real thing."—James Schuyler"In David Trinidad's Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera, the moment-by-moment particulars of tradi