American Boys
2012
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As much about how our erotic exchanges are structured through language as they are directly about sex and desire, the poems in Alex Dimitrov's new chapbook, American Boys, delightfully invoke Allen Ginsberg as their guide. "You must kill what wants," Dimitrov says, "like death, to keep you." American Boys also features screenshots of text messages and other images from our modern methods of communication and connection. Dimitrov's first full-length collection, Begging for It, is due in March 2013 from Four Way Books.
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Author
Alex Dimitrov
Author · 7 books
Alex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poems, including Love and Other Poems, as well as the chapbook American Boys. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Poetry. He was the former senior content editor at the Academy of American Poets, where he edited Poem-A-Day and American Poets. He has taught creative writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, and Barnard College, among other institutions. With Dorothea Lasky, he is the co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. Dimitrov lives in New York.
