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grayjay's review against another edition
5.0
My new favourite poet. Ripe with character, narrative, and pop culture references, Trinidad crafts poems with wit and flair on subjects that range from observations of old tv shows, to the AIDS crisis, to the lives and moments between other celebrated poets like Sylvia Plath. I learned, laughed out loud, and was inspired.
jeeleongkoh's review
4.0
I enjoyed David Trinidad's New and Selected Poems. He is of the New York School, grandson of Frank O'Hara and son of James Schuyler. He combines an air of improvisation with a keen sense of form. The content is rather run-of-the-mill: white boy from suburb do drugs, drink and sex, then sober up to take his poetic vocation seriously, falling in love, and then breaking up with a longtime-partner, losing friends to AIDS. But he has an unmistakable zest for life and friendship. And an obsession with Valley of the Dolls and collecting vintage Barbies. The details of a life add up. I like the thinginess of the poetry. In its unabashed inclusion of every small thing and every stray thought, it expands the boundaries of the permissible and the significant.
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