The Power

by Joe DiBuduo

This is my first volume of Poetic Flash Fiction. I included 226 poems/flash fiction that were almost all written in the year 2010

Where I grew up in Hano, a Boston neighborhood, I would have been beaten with a stick for reciting a poem. So for me to write an entire book of poetry is so unlikely, I’m writing this book in a genre I call, Poetic Flash Fiction, because I feel I’m writing flash fiction in poetic form.

Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones are discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.

316 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2011

About the author

Joe DiBuduo grew up poor in Boston. He had a troubled childhood and spent time in reform and training schools. As an adult, the house of corrections beckoned him and he spent time there too. A quick turn of fate led him to California and then Chicago, where he married and had children. He spent the next thirty years working as a construction painter, heading wherever the jobs were and working in many states.

DiBuduo is now retired and lives in Prescott, Arizona, where he studied creative writing at Yavapai College. Anger used to be a daily part of his life until he began to write. Now if something upsets him, he writes about it.

DiBuduo is the author of "A Penis Manologue: One Man's Response to The Vagina Monologues" and several collections of flash fiction and "poetic flash fiction." He also has poetry, short fiction, and children's published in journals and anthologies.