Böcker av Tom Driscoll

The new selection of short fiction by Tom Driscoll, Footnote to Doggerel, will take the reader back and forth in time and geography, from WWII to the rain forest of the Congo, the Pisgah Mountains of North Carolina to the looping dreamscapes of organ failure. Doomed lovers and resilient losers populate the stories; magic and myth, the vitality of youth and the wages of aging, rage, hallucination, heroism, charlatans and innocents come alive through Driscoll's dur à cuire storytelling.

In "April: 30 Poems" Tom Driscoll shares a collection of poems evolved across the month of April in 2021 writing in response to prompts shared by poet and teacher, Jan Hutchinson. From 'About These' : "Jan sends out these seeds and her community of fellow poets, they are the various gardens, or gardeners. This "April: 30 Poems" is simply my crop, the result of my answering every prompt this year, 2021. I haven't lived with these a long time yet. Some may be forced flowers -and that's a problem, so I've been told. But I do know that compelling these answering poems, these various responses, has given me more than a few gifts. In at least trying to write them down, I've found things I wouldn't have even looked for, left to my own devices."

In "Personal Histories," poet and essayist, Tom Driscoll shares a collection of short prose written over the past fifteen years. Touching on topics of war and peace, social justice and citizenship, race and reckoning, politics past and present, historical fact and fiction, this is a book that illustrates the challenges involved with simply being, simply paying attention to the world around and the workings of one's own mind. A trip to the movies, an online troll spat, an old photograph found in the desk drawer, a conversation overheard at a convenience store, light shining off the wings of an airplane passing overhead -these are the spurs for speculation, consideration and argumentation, even an occasional prayer.