Alex Dimitrov
June 2012, New York City
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June 1, 2012
American Boys, an echapbook
I think of a chapbook as the equivalent to an EP by my favorite band, and a full length book as an LP. The poems in this echapbook, American Boys, were written between November 2011 and March 2012. They’re not included in my first book, Begging for It, which will be out in the spring. In American Boys I’m thinking about America—the one we’re sold and the one we live in. I’m thinking about Allen Ginsberg. I’m thinking about how we communicate through text messages and social media, how we have sex—I’m thinking about summer. And the poems—they’re thinking about you. All eight of them. And secretly, they’re about love.
