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The Complete Dark Shadows
(of My Childhood)
by Tony Trigilio
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Tony Trigilio's book-length poem The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood) is
the first book of a multi-volume experiment in autobiography. For this project,
Trigilio is watching all 1,225 episodes of Dark Shadows, the gothic soap opera
that ran on ABC from 1966-1971. He is composing one sentence for each episode and
shaping the sentences into couplets. Book 1 covers 183 episodes. The Complete
Dark Shadows (of My Childhood) is both an autobiographical diary poem and an ode
to lost television artifacts. As David Trinidad, author of Peyton Place: A Haiku
Soap Opera, writes of the book, "Trigilio manages to create a riveting two-fold
narrative-personal and TV-screen ekphrastic-out of piecemeal sentences (one per
episode) that honor the most unlikely of poetic subjects: a cheaply produced, blooper-ridden,
gothic-horror soap opera.
Barnabas Collins, kitsch vampire but source of poet Tony Trigilio's childhood nightmares,
rises from his casket in the first sentence of this intrepid fever chart of a poem.
Trigilio manages to create a riveting two-fold narrative-personal and TV-screen
ekphrastic-out of piecemeal sentences (one per episode) that honor the most unlikely
of poetic subjects: a cheaply produced, blooper-ridden, gothic-horror soap opera.
This is just the first installment of what promises to be a classic American coffin-shaped
(I hope) epic poem.
-David Trinidad
Tony Trigilio has taken on an epic task in The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood).
Here, in Book 1, Trigilio uses the episodes as touchstones for his earliest memories,
including nightmares, brought on by TV's dream factory. Watching Dark Shadows episodes
on DVD almost fifty years later, alone or with friends, the speaker confesses, "each
time I rewind, it's something different." He re-casts his past in terms of gruesome
camp, excavation and repression. As I read through this poem I remember my outrage
at Dark Shadows being preempted by Watergate coverage, the weird day the show went
from black and white to color. But if Trigilio seems to be in the zeitgeist-Dark
Shadows remade by Tim Burton, Dark Shadows as referenced in Mad Men-he is also solidly
planted in the universal. A boy and his mother, his brother, his father. The spirit
and death. Blood-as in relation. Blood as in sex and violence. Couplets (rhyming
and not), anaphora, elegies, sonnets, and a ghazal beautifully frame personal and
cultural anxiety.
-Denise Duhamel
Long before Twilight or True Blood, there was Barnabas Collins haunting the national
psyche-a vampire the poet Tony Trigilio met before he met language itself, through
watching the Dark Shadows soap as a very young child with his mother. In this tour-de-force
of a long poem, Trigilio reveals how our pop culture invades the very core of our
imagination with irresistible magical images such as ghost girls, psychic boys,
"sea tramps," and "paranormal flowers" of all varieties. But what he also shows
is that while (to paraphrase Wittgenstein) "our pictures hold us captive," we can
repossess them and ourselves through our creative acts. Anyone who wants to understand
what's behind our cultural obsession with vampires better get this book right away.
-Jerome Sala
Tony Trigilio's recent books are White Noise (Apostrophe Books) and Historic Diary
(BlazeVOX [books]). He is editor of Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments, forthcoming
in 2014 from Ahsahta Press. He directs the program in Creative Writing/Poetry at
Columbia College Chicago and is a co-founder and co-editor of Court Green.
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