Publisher's Synopsis
My Bedside Radio - Poems by Anthony Cappo
"These are great-hearted poems, as eager as a kid listening to a radio, waiting for a story. There's something so compelling, beautiful and tragic happening to the reader, poem by unfolding poem. Cappo's new collection, My Bedside Radio, is one I'll reread and reread! His poems are craft-wise, clear, and call us to answer the question: how do past memories live, in present tense.""-Kate Knapp Johnson, author of When Orchids Were Flowers, This Perfect Life, and Wind Somewhere, and Shade "In My Bedside Radio, song lyrics lead Anthony Cappo back through his early years in a sequence of taut, associative poems rich with details both personal and historical. Within range of this poet's thoughtful listening, no one is ever "just singing // a song." Colored at times by longing and nostalgia, at others by wistfulness or regret, these moving poems show how the soundtracks of our lives enable us to stay connected to our early experiences and emotions, reminding us who we were-and ultimately who we are."
-Matthew Thorburn, author of This Time Tomorrow and Green River in Spring "Anthony Cappo's My Bedside Radio is a collection both honest and meticulously crafted. It is a poignant narrative bringing us into a world rife with loss, a burgeoning sexual identity, the ever-complicated American political landscape, and a boy's coming of age journey in a shifting family dynamic. Cappo uses music to brilliantly capture the aesthetic of the time, and it is a must-read for anyone who ever felt out of place and out of time."
-Joanna C. Valente, author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the
