The Valley of No Return: David Trinidad February 29, 2008

Following a day-long conference on "Talking Trash," ([email protected]) Poet David Trinidad will discuss his lifelong fascination with Jacqueline Susann’s classic “trash” novel Valley of the Dolls, a behind-the-scenes roman à clef about three women in the “drug-filled, love-starved, sex-satiated, nightmare world of show business.” David Trinidad’s most recent book of poetry is The Late Show. He co-edited Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry and his other books include Plasticville and Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse. FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC

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