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Douglas Piccinnini

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Douglas Piccinnini is the author of several chapbooks including Soft (The Cultural Society) and Flag (Well Greased Press)—an encoded chromaglyph.

Piccinnini's writing has appeared in Antioch Review, Diner Journal, Lana Turner, NYTimes.com, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Verse, and The Volta, among other publications. Story Book (The Cultural Society) is his first novella. He is also the author of the forthcoming collection of poems, Blood Oboe (Omnidawn). ...more

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Stehpan Delbos on STORY BOOK

When confronted for the first time with the genre of “prose poetry,” any kindergarten student worth their salt will inquire why all fiction isn’t written with such attention to language. If, with a little more coaxing, prose can be made poetic, aren’t most writers just being lazy?

Douglas Piccinnini’s Story Book is not a book of prose poetry. But it does give an indication of what might happen when Read more of this blog post »

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Published on April 18, 2016 08:25 • Tags: fiction, poetry, writing

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	Blood Oboe 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Does This World Want Me To Have Problems? New & Selected Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars