By Myself: An Autobiography

by D.A. Powell and David Trinidad

If there were an award for Chapbook of the Year it would surely be given to By Myself: An Autobiography. In the spirit of Goethe's comment, "One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person one knows," two celebrated poets, D.A. Powell and David Trinidad, have collaborated to create a perfect portrait of an unknown star in 300 lines by taking one sentence from each of 300 celebrity autobiographies. The result is poignant, poetic and hilarious — a perfect and imperishable performance.

978-1-933527-29-1, $9.00

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About the Author

Joe Ashby Porter is the author of the novels Eelgrass, Resident Aliens, The Near Future (Turtle Point Press) and the collections The Kentucky Stories, Lithuania: Short Stories, and Touch Wood (Turtle Point Press). With his alter ego, Shakespearean Joseph A. Porter, he has taught at Duke University since 1980.

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