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My poems can be found in my chapbook Familiar\u00a0History<\/em>, <\/strong>available<\/a>\u00a0from Finishing Line Press.<\/p>\n They can be found in print in Sugar House Review<\/a><\/em> (issue #6), Reed<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(issue 63),\u00a0Redactions<\/a> <\/em>(issue 12),<\/em>\u00a0The Santa Clara Review<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(issue 96), Harpur Palat<\/em>e<\/a> (issue 16.1), Sow’s Ear Poetry Review <\/em><\/a>(issue 27.3), Louisiana Literature<\/em><\/a> (issue 37.2), and After Happy Hour<\/em><\/a> (issue 18).<\/p>\n They can also be found in online journals such as Eclectica<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Slant<\/a>, Gloom Cupboard<\/a><\/em>, The 2River View<\/a><\/em>, Haikuniverse<\/a>, Pif Magazine<\/a>, <\/em>The Adirondack Review<\/em><\/a>, Anti-Heroin Chic<\/em><\/a>, and Adelaide Literary Magazine<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Most contemporary poetry doesn\u2019t rhyme the way poems taught in school often do. It\u2019s usually written in free verse\u2014lines shaped by breath, pressure, and sound rather than set meters. The poems still care about music, but they aren\u2019t trying to follow inherited rules. They\u2019re trying to tell the truth in language that fits the lives being described.<\/p>\n When asked to describe my chapbook<\/a> Familiar History<\/em>, my teacher Corrinne Clegg Hales said the poems \u201cde-romanticize the landscape and mythology of the American West, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives.\u201d I think that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n I was raised in a poor, rural part of northern Nevada. The West I knew didn\u2019t look like the movies. It wasn\u2019t clean or heroic. People worked hard, drank hard, fought hard, and got hurt. Families broke down. Money ran out. The land didn\u2019t offer much forgiveness.<\/p>\n Growing up, I watched the same Westerns everyone else did, men like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood who never seemed to bleed, no matter what they faced. But in the town where I was born, Fallon, Nevada, people did bleed. Often it was for nothing. 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They can be found in print in Sugar House Review (issue #6), Reed\u00a0(issue 63),\u00a0Redactions (issue 12),\u00a0The Santa Clara Review\u00a0(issue 96), Harpur Palate (issue 16.1), Sow’s Ear Poetry Review (issue 27.3), Louisiana Literature (issue 37.2), and After Happy Hour (issue 18). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"My poems can be found in my chapbook Familiar History<\/em>, <\/strong>currently available<\/a> from Finishing Line Press.\n\n[maxbutton id=\"1\"]\n\nThey can also be found in online journals such as Eclectica<\/a>,<\/em> Slant<\/a>, Gloom Cupboard<\/em>, The 2River View<\/a><\/em>, Haikuniverse<\/a>, Pif Magazine<\/a>, <\/em>and The Adirondack Review<\/em><\/a>.\n\nThey can be found in print in Sugar House Review<\/a>:<\/em> [gview file=\"http:\/\/guiseppegetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Sugar_House_Review_6.pdf\"]\n\nThey can also be found in several other print magazines, including Reed<\/a> <\/em>(issue 63), Redactions<\/a> <\/em>(issue 12),<\/em> The Santa Clara Review<\/a> <\/em>(issue 96), Harpur Palat<\/em>e<\/a> (issue 16.1), Sow's Ear Poetry Review<\/a> <\/em>(issue 27.3), and Louisiana Literature<\/em><\/a> (issue 37.2)\nThis Isn\u2019t Robert Frost<\/h1>\n
What I Write About: ‘Struggle and Failure and Broken Lives’<\/h1>\n
Er, This Ain't No Robert Frost<\/h1>\nIf you're unfamiliar with the writing of poets who are currently alive and kicking, contemporary poetry might come as a bit of a shock. Poets today largely eschew the rhyming poetry many of us learn about in school for a style called free verse<\/a>. Free verse typically doesn't rhyme and though it often contains a certain musicality, it tends to stay away from set rhythms like iambic pentameter<\/a> (the meter popularized by William Shakespeare).\n
Central Themes: 'Struggle and Failure and Broken Lives'<\/h1>\nMany times our teachers and mentors see our work better than we can ourselves. When asked to provide a blurb for my first book<\/a>, Familiar History<\/em>, Corrinne Cleggs Hales, my mentor and poetry teacher from my M.F.A. program, said the book: \"expertly de-romanticizes the landscape and mythology of the American west, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives.\"\n\nI think this accurately describes my work much better than I ever could. The world represented in my poetry is a dark one. I was raised<\/a> in an impoverished, rural area of Northern Nevada and the struggles of a difficult, isolated childhood have colored much of how I see the American West. Like many from this region, I grew up watching superhuman characters brought to life by Clint Eastwood and John Wayne who could take on the entire world without ever shedding a single drop of blood.\n\nThis was not the reality of the small farming town of Fallon, NV I was born in. There, people did shed blood, often in the vain hope of achieving an American Dream that had seemed to skip over their entire region and everyone they held dear.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n