7/23/2019 David R. DiSarro Press Release

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Finishing Line PressP.O. Box 1626Georgetown, KY 40324859-514-8966www.finishinglinepress.com Contact: Leah Maines, Editor

David R. DiSarro376 Hale StreetBeverly, MA 01915978-232-2237drdisarro.weebly.com ddisarro@endicott.edu

Finishing Line Press is pleased to announce the publication of

 I Used to Play in Bands, Poems by David R. DiSarro

 I Used to Play in Bands, a new collection of poems by David R. DiSarro, brings to life people who mightotherwise be forgotten and explores the complexity of human life with a deft touch and a quiet urgency.

Vivian Shipley, two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of the

acclaimed and award-winning poetry collection All of Your Messages Have Been Erased , writes “Poems in David DiSarro’s I Used to Play

in Bands are memorable because they are physical….Vivid detailabout billboards that 'exercise' the eyes and of bodies that are 'marked biohazard' cause poems to glow, shift and blaze with a passion for being, for a life lived fully. What other poet has written a poem aboutskateboarding at 33 to show how the spirit stays alive in spite of beingcontained in an aging body? What unites this intense and compellingcollection is DiSarro’s knowledge that, in spite of the complexity of being human, we cannot allow passion and laughter to get swallowed by a world that threatens to drown out music, to drown out song.”

Poet Michael Meyerhofer also notes the poems in I Used to Play in Bands “display a great range in terms of style, but what unifies them istheir rugged, unflagging commitment to scoring the humanexperience, to identifying that underlying musical chord in all itssadness, horror, whimsy, and beauty.”

 I Used to Play in Bands is DiSarro’s first published chapbook. His work has previously appeared in The Wilderness House Literary Review, The Hawaii Pacific

 Review, Shot Glass Poetry Journal, The Ibbetson Street Magazine, The Orange

 Room Review, Breadcrumb Scabs, Third Wednesday, among others. He currentlyworks at Endicott College and lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with hiswife, Beth, boys Holden and Parker, and two rambunctious golden retrievers.

 I Used to Play in Bands can be ordered online at www.finishinglinepress.com andis also available on Amazon.com.

$14.49, 19 pages, paper. ISBN: 978-1-62229-979-9