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The Brubury Tales is now available for Kindle. Yay! Check it out if you have a minute. ASIN:B007P73RT2

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The Brubury Tales [by Frank Mundo] is a landmark book, in what is going to be -- and already is -- an exceptional, distinguished literary career. --Carolyn See of The Washington Post

Mundo's skill is astounding and has a natural cadence. These stories are intriguing and compellingly human, and soon enough the reading becomes listening. --Sacramento Book Review

With inspiration from many literary classics and plenty of original spin, The Brubury Tales is a fine collection and not one to be missed. --Midwest Book Review

The Brubury Tales is a brilliant blend of writing, combining the style of Chaucer while putting a new slant on the short stories of the classical writers. --Reader Views

A unique and powerful new book,The Brubury Tales draws upon Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and classic stories by Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Dickens, to name a few. Frank Mundo takes risks with his writing, which is sensitive, thoughtful, and gritty. --Laura Frazin Steele, LA Books Examiner

Winner of a Poet Laureate Award Nomination from UCLA and CAL, The Brubury Tales has also won Reader Views 2011 Reviewers Choice Award for Poetry Book of the Year and the 2011 Bookhitch Award for the Most Innovative Book of Poetry.

The Brubury Tales is currently #81 on the list of Amazon's bestselling poetry books in the UK! Very cool.

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Last week, The Brubury Tales made Amazon's bestseller list for poetry in the UK and it has now made the list in Italy, too, for books in English. Yay!

n.40 in Libri in altre lingue > Narrativa > Poesia

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A lot of people have told me that they want to read my poetry book The Brubury Tales but that they feel intimidated because of its size (the Brubury Tales is a 65,000-word rhyming poem that reimagines Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Los Angeles after the 1992 Riots). They say they've never read such a large poem before and aren't sure how to go about it.

Usually I send them a link to a video of me reading or invite them to one of my readings to hear it live. And, once they hear me read a little of it, it seems they find that it's really very accessible -- and not much different than reading other novels.

With this in mind, check out this recording of The General Prologue, the opening chapter of The Brubury Tales I did in a recording studio a while back. The studio time was a prize I won for winning a Spoken Word poetry contest at the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica, California.

Check it out and see for yourself how a novel-in-verse sounds.

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This is so cool. ‪It’s official. I’ll be headed to Washington DC for the Split This Rock Poetry Festival to read poems from my new poetry chapbook, Touched by an Anglo, with other amazing poets from Kattywompus Press AKA The Wompus.

‪BE YOU/DO YOU: Rejoin; Rejoice‬
‪Presenters: Curtis Crisler, Cornelius Eady, Van Garrett, Sammy Greenspan, Christine Howey, Frank Mundo, Deborah Schwartz, Rose Smith‬

‪Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2018 | April 19-21‬ | Washington DC

This is especially exciting for me because I was born in Maryland and spent my early life in this area. I haven’t been back in 32 years. Maybe you can go home again. I guess I’ll find out.

If you want to grab a copy of Touched by an Anglo, it’s available at Kattywompus Press’ website here: http://kattywompuspress.com/shop/book...

Of course, if you’d like to check out my first poetry book, The Brubury Tales (foreword by the Grande Dame of Southern California Lit, the late and great Carolyn See), it’s available on kindle or in paperback at Amazon. It’s also free on Kindle Unlimited. https://www.amazon.com/Brubury-Tales-...