Description
ISBN: 978-1-997880-01-1
Genre: poetry
Cover art by: Christopher Shoust
114 p.p.
This softcover version is handmade and contains some recycled materials (reused materials that are diverted from the landfill). Covers have folding flaps. There are patterned end-papers. Each book is numbered.
SYNOPSIS: Cul-de-sac Diaries is a collection of 100 poems that looks for unusual or bizarre relationships between things in our lives. Peter J. Dellolio uses language as a way of conjuring images that are essentially surreal. He attempts to find ways of making language emulate the imagery in the paintings of Dali and Magritte. His work continues a form of surrealism that was initiated in the 1920s and 30s by the French surrealist writer Andre Breton.
About the author: Dellolio was born in NYC in 1956. He graduated from New York University in 1978. He has had a variety of work published in over 110 literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, in print and online. Since 2018, three of his poetry collections, a novel, and a novella have also been published. For poetry, the titles include: A Box Of Crazy Toys (Xenos Books); Bloodstream Is An Illusion Of Rubies Counting Fireplaces and Roller Coasters Made Of Dream Space (Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing). For novels & novella titles include: The Confession (Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing) and The Vigil (Type Eighteen Books). A short story collection will be released soon called That’s Where You Go & Other Short Stories (Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing). A collection of his one-act plays was published in 1983 by Dramatika Press. Peter has taught language skills through art projects for LEAP in the NYC public school system. He lives in Brooklyn.
