My Last Resume: New & Collected Poems
1971-1980 / 1999-2023

Santiago Mejia / San Francisco Chronicle / Polaris

Santiago Mejia / San Francisco Chronicle / Polaris

About Joseph Di Prisco

Joseph Di Prisco is the acclaimed author of prize-winning poetry, bestselling memoirs, nonfiction, and novels. He taught for many years and has served as board member or chair of not-for-profits dedicated to the arts, theater, children’s mental health, and education.

In 2015, he founded New Literary Project, a not-for-profit driving social change and unleashing artistic power, investing in writers across generations from neglected, overlooked communities. He also directs NewLit’s annual Joyce Carol Oates Prize, awarded to mid-career authors of fiction, and is Series Editor of the annual anthology Simpsonistas: Tales from New Literary Project. Born in Brooklyn, he grew up in Greenpoint and then in Berkeley. He and his family now live in Lafayette, California.
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My Last Resume

  • “I just love Joe Di Prisco’s poems. They move with lightness and grace, arriving again and again at the joy of surprise. They have humor, wisdom, sorrow, joy, love. I would say they have no fucks to give, but they actually give a fuck about everything. To have the best of his work in one book is a real treasure.”

    On My Last Resume — Matthew Zapruder, Story of a Poem and Father’s Day

  • “A beautiful, heartfelt, sometimes funny, occasionally harrowing story of a man making his way through the minefield of his own family history. Di Prisco has lived more lives than most of us, and managed to get it all down in this riveting book.”

    On Subway to California — Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

  • “What makes Joseph Di Prisco’s novel work is its narrative voice— poignant, rueful, and wise-crackingly sardonic. This voice belongs to a just-deceased Catholic Brother, lingering in the afterlife to sort out his life’s meanings and errors, confronting friends and enemies. This is a novel about posthumous discoveries, reunions and revenge. Readers of J.F. Powers’ Morte d’Urban and Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy should find their way to All For Now.”

    On All for Now — P.F. Kluge, author of A Call From Jersey, Gone Tomorrow, and Eddie and the Cruisers

  • “In the rarified realm of A Confederacy of Dunces and David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress, Sibella & Sibella is surely the new picaresque--set in the mysterious world of independent publishing, the singular voice of a junior editor is roundly inhabited by Mr. Di Prisco who nimbly plays with form and language, and an industry he clearly both loves and scorns. A remarkable reading experience.”

    On Sibella & Sibella — David Francis, author of Stray Dog Winter and Wedding Bush Road

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