Introducing Chris Tonelli

Introducing Chris Tonelli


If you're a writer interested in sending me a headshot (i like "eyes" mostly) please do so to ronklassnik2001 (at) yahoo (dot) com and I may well do one up of you.

Am thinking also of starting a blog with just these (writer portraits)

from Brave Men Press-- Chris Tonelli's "No Theater"

a note from Brian Foley at Brave Men Press

Considering the responsibilities of the social world with a disconnected eye, NO THEATER is a collection of meticulously crafted poems that perform outside of time, but remain intuitively familiar and profound. Chris Tonelli reveals the artificialities of the everyday self with a language stalked by loss yet driven by possibility. Here, these poems come prepared in an armature of many masks and invested with an insight sure to move around the mental furniture of any reader.

Chris Tonelli co-curates The So and So Series and is the author of four chapbooks, most recently For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife Allison.

Read a sample poem here

Cover is letterpressed with black ink on black paper.
Printed in a limited edition of 123.
25 pages.

$9.50