The cover of my chapbook of poems about the American west: Familiar History

By Guiseppe getto

Familiar History

Poems

In the words of the always-incisive Corrinne Cleggs Hales, Familiar History “expertly de-romanticizes the landscape and mythology of the American west, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives.” 

Poet

Guiseppe Getto

Though poetry is definitely an avocation for me at this point, I have been writing poetry most of my life. Like many writers, I use art to process a difficult upbringing. I was born and raised in rural Nevada, a landscape littered with nuclear fallout from above ground atomic testing, violent cowboys, and dysfunctional family systems, including my own. This landscape is largely the palette I continue to use in most of my work even though I have lived outside of it for many years now.

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A Poem About My Father Trying to Fix Stuff and Failing Miserably

A Poem About My Father Trying to Fix Stuff and Failing Miserably

My poem “Repartee,” a poem about the ritual of fixing things with my father, is currently available in issue 28 of Anti-Heroin Chic. Anti-Heroin Chic describes itself as a "collective journal of poetry, photography, artwork, stories, essays, interviews and...

Working Class Poetry: Or Work From the Two Americas

Working Class Poetry: Or Work From the Two Americas

I'm still amazed every day at the two Americas we live in. I was raised in the other one, the one I escaped. My entire biological family, minus a few, are Trump supporters. I grew up hearing racist things spoken by caregivers every single day. My mother, a...