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Pop-culture, private memory, and formalist sensibility meet in David Trinidad's long-awaited new collection.
Reading The Late Show…is like watching 12 hours of 1960s network TV, including the commercials, in the company of a very smart, very gossipy friend…Trinidad's style is casual and chatty, but not formally slack. An anecdotal elegy for James Schuyler turns out to be a line-for-line imitation of Schuyler's own "Wystan Auden." This technical rigor allows Trinidad to be garrulous and unguarded without seeming self-indulgent. But his most impressive gift is an ability to dignifiy the dross of American life, to honor both the shrink-wrapped sentiment of the cultural artifacts he writes about and his own much more complicated emotional response to them.
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Ian Hulsey
reviewed The Late Show: Poems on August 06, 2008
The Late Show: Poems
With some of his poems I found myself saying, "Is this a poem or is this prose?" particularly the final poem in the book. However, his poems stuck with me--I kept thinking about that last poem for at least two weeks after I was finished with the book--so he must have done something right.
Trinidad has a series of sonnets in the middle of the book that are somewhat vulgar, but I didn't even realize they were rhyming until I was half way through them. His construction should be applauded.
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