Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet (2008–1953) by George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, with Nicole Mauro. Mauro collaborates with past presidents, utilizing their verbatim text, which she has culled from past Presidents' speeches. Originally published as an handmade chapbook by Pendergast Press for the Dusie Kollektiv, 2009. Cover is flag fabric with hand-sewn asterisks and striped stitches by Dawn Pendergast. Currently archived in the University of Arizona Poetry Center's rare book room as well as in NYC’s Poets House library alongside other Dusie chaps. From Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet: *stretched* *is* *wasted* *moral equivalent* *on many occasions* *we are the heirs* *a refinery or a pipe-line* *our neck* *OPEC* *stagnation* *God’s love* *the dusty* *unyielding* *advice* http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/enews...
Author
Nicole Mauro has published poems and criticism in numerous journals, including How2, Jacket, and Western Humanities Review. She is the author of six chapbooks, one full-length collection, The Contortions (Dusie Books, 2009), and is the co-editor of an interdisciplinary book about sidewalks titled Intersection: Sidewalks and Public Space (with Marci Nelligan, ChainArts, 2008). Her second full-length poetry collection, Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet Featuring Sarah Palin as Poet, is due out from Black Radish Books in 2011. Nicole lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband Patrick, and daughters Nina and Faye. She teaches rhetoric and language at the University of San Francisco.
