Joe Stanton's Sinatra poem!

Listen to Joe Stanton read his poem "For Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours" (with Frank accompanying him in the background!) at the end of this this interview with him from Hawaii Public Radio. 

The poem is included in my anthology "Sinatra But Buddy I'm A Kind of Poem" (Entasis Press, 2008).

I wordled Sinatra!

This word cloud was generated from the introduction to Sinatra: But Buddy I'm a Kind of Poem (Entasis Press, 2008).

Tiger Woods: Part IV (If I'd send you all of my books for free...)

From today's Hartford Courant:

"Sales of the book Get a Grip on Physics are soaring on Amazon.com because a copy can be seen on the floor of Tiger Woods's mangled SUV in pictures released by Florida police."

I need to hang around, with copies of my books in tow, of course, more places that might turn into tabloidy crime scenes!

Now THAT'D be a good reason to get on Twitter: to learn about tabloidy crime scenes as soon as they happen.

(Note to self: re-think Twitter avoidance.)

I know the figure means little...

...but when my 2002 book, A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit, was mentioned in the big Sinatra and cultural studies article published last week in The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (and posted on this blog on 1/20/09), its "Amazon.com Sales Rank" jumped from close to the 3,000,000 mark to under 200,000.

Ooh, baby, somebody must've bought it!

(Too bad the author didn't mention my 2008 Entasis Press anthology Sinatra: But Buddy I'm a Kind of Poem ...HINT HINT)