#beggingforit

Click here to read an interview with Alex Dimitrov (Begging for It) by Christopher Soto for the Poetry Society of America.

“The collection reads with the ebb and flow of a good party.  And you know what? A good party has a hallowed place in literature.  This one is haunted by the spirits of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Oscar Wilde, as well as late arrivals Brigitte Bardot, James Dean, and, yes, even James Franco.” Read the full review by Safia Jama here. 

"Everything about making this book surprised me. It was my first one. And also the way my mind works, there’s an aesthetic on the page that has to come to me, but there’s also the visual aesthetic and sensibility that goes along with that, which is equally important to me. And I don’t mean the images in the poems necessarily but the moving images, the videos, the still images, the photographs that I associate with the book. Those are all part of it. I think very cinematically. Like the book trailer I made, for example. Or the shoot my friend Rachel Silveri and I did on the rooftop of my old apartment building in New York, in the Lower East Side. That’s part of the world of the book. The visual landscape I’m trying to create. The aura. It has to be there." Read the full interview by Megan Fernandes here. 

"Famous and Nowhere" by Alex Dimitrov (Begging for It) is in Cosmonauts Avenue. Click here to read it.