Joe

Hi all. Happy to announce that my debut volume of poetry, THE HABILIMENTS, will be available for purchase later this month. Here's what the publisher, Apostrophe Books, has to say about the collection. "An odd paradox underlies all of the poems in THE HABILIMENTS: the 'habiliments' or 'clothing' of the title refers simultaneously to dressing and stripping bare. The accouterments, costumes, objects, and trappings in which we construct identity are woven into a tapestry of memory, dream, forgetting, and, ultimately, grief. Milazzo uses allusion, antimeria, neologisms, conversions, and logical disruptions, as well as a deep attention to the elusive uncertainties of language to explore how words simultaneously succeed and fail to express emotion, describe reality, or make sense of our relationship with others. Quotidian reality wears a new syntactical and semantic garb as each poem seems to unravel language and a circadian rotation of "dreams": ambiguously of sleep, of aspiration, of nonsense, of the fantastic, or of the banal. If Milazzo's poems are a kind of 'dream song,' they are constructed in radically different ways than John Berryman's (though there are formal echoes of that poet's phantasmagoric layers). In these dream songs, Berryman's angst and sorrow collide with John Ashbery's metaphysics of erosion, Rosmarie Waldrop's semantic drifting, and John Yau's surreal atmospherics." More information about the book can be found via its distributor, SPD. http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780979362774/the-habiliments.aspx ... Or at Goodreads, if you are active on that platform: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29395188-the-habiliments

John Barleycorn Fern Michaels Daisy Duke

The Gangster of Love The Space Cowboy The Joker

Little Orphan Annie Anne Frank Ann Richards

Richard Branson Bronson Pinchot Dr. Bunsen Honeydew

Right on. And I will confine myself to 10 - 12 tracks this go 'round.

Keep it going! I should be able to 'host' one later this year. Like, August.

Bruce Bruce Bruce

Wow. 13 years. Crazy to think I've known many of you now -- albeit some only virtually -- for almost two decades.

Cripple Clarence Lofton Cow Cow Davenport Hot Weewee Jefferson (The Cystitis Kid)

Huey Long Louis Prima Donald "Duck" Dunn

Mike Quick Fast Eddie Clarke Mike D'Antoni

Borat Ali G Kenny G

Lem Winchester David Ogden Stiers Geoff Stephens

László Bíró Candido Jacuzzi Thomas Crapper

Vida Blue Ricky Martin Lucy Ricardo

Claude Monet Monnette Sudler Sudsy Malone

The Original Sonny Boy Williamson King Biscuit W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel

Tony Orlando Tony Randall Tony Clifton

Barney Google Sergey Brin Alexander Nevsky

Harold Hill Hank Hill Anita Hill

Laura Ashley Tom Jones Elvis Costello

Also, the subject of a classic episode of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000!

Bender (the robot) / Jake The Dog / Dr. Drakken

Mamie Van Doren Mel Tormé Claus Ogerman