On Self-Expression After the Revolution: Poems and Images

by John Tessitore

On Self-Expression After the Revolution is a collection of poems and photographs set in New York City, among the winners and losers of the American Dream. By turns angry, determined, erotic…it is a humanistic cry, a plea for a new body politics, a song of resistance in the shadows and glare of corporate capitalism.

I am aware of the irony,
that I enter New York
a refugee
from my own dream.

39 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 3, 2024

About the author

John Tessitore grew up on Long Island and is a long-time resident of Massachusetts. He has been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, and a biographer. He has taught British and American history and literature at colleges around Boston and has directed national policy studies on education, civil justice, and cultural policy. He now runs his own strategic communications business. His poems have appeared in the American Journal of Poetry, Canary, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Wild Roof, The Ekphrastic Review, and other journals and anthologies. His chapbooks, I Sit At This Desk and Dream: Notes from a Sunday Morning on Instagram (2021), We Are Becoming Unbound (2022), All the Lonely American Roads (2022), Parchment: A Prayer Quintet, Body Songs (2023), and For a minute there, it seemed like something was happening. (2023), are available in print and for Kindle, as is his novella Jigsaw Men (2023).