Top Teen Greatest Hits - Paperback

by Electrofork (Illustrator), Pieter Van Hattem (Photographer), Carol Wierzbicki (Author)

"Wierzbicki's poems are like early Corso, before the Beats, when he got straight to the point quickly, with great beauty. Her words carry the necessary freight with terrific speed and economy--look how spare and yet terribly lovely 'Dorothy's Poem' is--it breaks your heart with absolute efficiency. If poetry is to proceed into the future with any sort of relevancy, this is one way it might do so."--RON KOLM, co-author of NEO PHOBE (with Jim Feast); "Carol Wierzbicki's TOP TEEN GREATEST HITS is a big hit. In each of her fourteen poems, Ms. Wierzbicki mastered the technique of storytelling through perception and simplicity-- her rite of passage to be read and shared by all."-- PATRICIA CARRAGON, Brownstone Poets

Author Biography

Carol Wierzbicki has run poetry reading series at ABC No Rio and elsewhere in New York City. Her work has been published in BIG BRIDGE, LONG SHOT, THE CAFE REVIEW, PUBLIC ILLUMINATION, and EVERGREEN REVIEW; and in the Unbearables anthologies UNBEARABLES (1995), CRIMES OF THE BEATS (1998), and HELP YOURSELF! (2002), published by Autonomedia. She also is an editor of the Unbearables anthologies THE WORST BOOK I EVER READ (2009) and THE UNBEARABLES BIG BOOK OF SEX (2011). She compiled and edited STORIES FROM THE INFIRMARY (Universal Publishers,1999), an anthology of fiction and poetry on chronic illness. Her book reviews have appeared in THE BROOKLYN RAIL and AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW.