jeeleongkoh's review
4.0
I enjoyed David Trinidad's New and Selected Poems. He is of the New York School, grandson of Frank O'Hara and son of James Schuyler. He combines an air of improvisation with a keen sense of form. The content is rather run-of-the-mill: white boy from suburb do drugs, drink and sex, then sober up to take his poetic vocation seriously, falling in love, and then breaking up with a longtime-partner, losing friends to AIDS. But he has an unmistakable zest for life and friendship. And an obsession with Valley of the Dolls and collecting vintage Barbies. The details of a life add up. I like the thinginess of the poetry. In its unabashed inclusion of every small thing and every stray thought, it expands the boundaries of the permissible and the significant.
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