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The Living Party: Selected Earlier Poems 1989–2019

Anthony Lucero

The Living Party: Selected Earlier Poems 1989–2019 is a selection of poetry from Lucero’s early chapbooks, as well as poems that appeared in small press journals in the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s when he all but stopped sharing his unsolicited work.

Grateful acknowledgement is given to the editors of the following literary magazines, anthologies and chapbooks where some of these poems first appeared: Aileron, Alabama Dogshoe Moustache, Amelia, Art’s Garbage Gazette, Ash, Beehive, Brownbag, The Butterfly Chronicles, The Cherotic Revolutionary, Children Churches and Daddies, Chiron Review, Cicada, Cover, Curare, dbqp, Dream International Quarterly, Dreams and Nightmares, The Ear, First Class, George and Mertie’s Place, Gypsy Blood Review, Haggard and Halloo, Hammers, Heaven Bone, Higginsville Reader, Indefinite Space, Kumquat Meringue, Lilliput, Literary Chaos, Malevolence, My Legacy, The North Coast Journal, Oh, Paramasitic Propastitute, Pearl, Plain Brown Wrapper, Poetry Magic, Poetry Motel, Small Pond, Subourbon Press, Survive and Thrive, Theater of Blood, Thematic Poetry Quarterly, Tight, Voices, Xenophilia, ZZAJ Synchronology.

Lucero’s long poem, The Clown (Chiron Review Books, 2016), received praise from artists worldwide and was the inspiration for the feature film, Halo of Stars, which he also directed. His intimate 2010 offering, dear little missy, was recently reimagined in collaboration with photographer Massimo Leardini and is now available through Putzina Press.

“Incomparable”

Geof Huth, DBQP

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Edition Data

Paperback

Publisher
Chiron Review Press
Cover art
Aleksandra Waliszewska
Published
2020
ISBN
978-0-943795-71-3
Price U.S.
$17.99

E-book

Published
2020
ISBN
978-0-943795-77-5

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