The Hollywood Catechism: Poems, by Paul Fericano
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The Hollywood Catechism: Poems, by Paul Fericano
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In The Hollywood Catechism, his latest collection of poems, Paul Fericano shines a bright searchlight on our addiction to pop culture, our fixation on celebrity worship, and our suspicion of religious ideas. Each poem is a small lens flipped to reveal an alternate universe into which the reader enters bravely with no exit sign in sight. Fericano’s unique perspective is marked by a skill and talent that blends socio-political satire with suffering and sentiment. In the process, he manages to acknowledge our shenanigans and celebrate our humanity.
Elizabeth Taylor, Jesus, and Joe DiMaggio join hands with Freud, The Three Stooges, and Ann Landers, as Burt Lancaster, Charles Bukowski, and Johnny Unitas break bread with Wallace Stevens, Dean Martin, and Dinah Shore. And as U2’s Bono and Tyrone Power’s Zorro haunt each other’s dreams, the Marx Brothers discuss opera with Oprah. From the wickedly satirical “Sinatra, Sinatra” and its use of the crooner’s name in vain, to the irreverent appeal of “The Actor’s Creed,” “The Halle Berry” and “Prayer of the Talking Head,” Fericano’s lampoons are equally deft. The book’s empathetic “Howl of Lon Chaney, Jr.” is not only a luminous parody of Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem “Howl,” but a stunning work that stands on its own merits.
American/British poet and critic, Robert Peake, captured it best when he wrote: “Paul’s poetry is a distinct turn of mind—able to sweep up humor, irony, and deep feeling in a winning trifecta. It is precisely in the moment I am laughing in a Paul Fericano poem that my guard is down. It is then when Paul slips in a modicum of pathos, reminding me of how complex it is to be human, how, as Virginia Woolf puts it in Mrs. Dalloway, ‘dangerous it is to live even just one day.’ These are poems that read like the messages in a bottle that might be written by the last sane man on Earth, when everyone else has gone mad.”
The Hollywood Catechism: Poems, by Paul Fericano - Amazon Sales Rank: #2172156 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .25" w x 6.00" l, .35 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 110 pages
The Hollywood Catechism: Poems, by Paul Fericano Review
"These are poems that read like the messages in a bottle that might be written by the last sane man on Earth, when everyone else has gone mad."
Robert Peake
The Huffington Post
"[A] characteristically American blend of flim-flam, movie idols, and popular Christianity sets the tone of this entertaining and original book."
Jendi Reiter
Reiter's Block
"Fericano’s poems [are] short and snappily inventive like a fast-talking Raymond Chandler."
Charles Pitter
Zouch Magazine
"A wonderfully witty and satiric book...what these poems do is make explicit what's implied by celebrity culture: they pretend to take the idea of celebrity worship literally."
Jerome Sala
Espresso Bongo
"Fericano chronicles the mythology of the American celebrity like a modern-day Homer on the Hollywood Walk of Fame."
Benjamin Schmitt
At The Inkwell
"This is a book...firmly rooted in the American culture and mythology of the 1950s. Anyone, regardless of age or era, will pick up on the humor and rage coming through these poems."
Patrick T. Reardon
Pump Don't Work
About the Author
Paul Fericano is a poet, satirist and social activist. He was born in San Francisco in 1951, the year the term “rock and roll” was first used on the radio. He is the editor and co-founder of Yossarian Universal (1980), the nation’s first parody news service. Since 1971, his poetry and prose have appeared, disappeared and reappeared in various underground and above-ground literary and media outlets in this country and abroad, including: The Antarctic Review, Inside Joke, Mother Jones, Poetry Now, Projector, The Realist, Saturday Night Live, SoHo Arts Weekly, Vagabond, The Wormwood Review, and Catavencu Incomod (Romania), Charlie Hebdo (Paris), Il Male (Italy), Krokodil (Moscow), Pardon (Germany), Punch (London) and Satyrcón (Argentina).
His chapbooks and books of poetry and fiction include: Cancer Quiz (Scarecrow Books, 1977); Commercial Break (Poor Souls Press, 1982); The One Minute President (with Elio Ligi / Stroessner Verlag, 1986); and Interview with the Scalia (Peabody Press, 1994). Loading the Revolver with Real Bullets (Second Coming Press, 1977), a collection of his work partly funded by the state of California, achieved notoriety in 1978, when one of its poems, “The Three Stooges at a Hollywood Party,” was read on the floor of the California State Senate as a reason to abolish the California Arts Council.
In 1982, he received the Howitzer Prize for his poem, “Sinatra, Sinatra,” an award he himself created and exposed as a literary hoax to reveal the absurd nature of competitive awards. The following year, Commercial Break received both the Prix de Voltaire (Paris) and the Ambrose Bierce Prize (San Francisco) for upholding the traditions of socio-political satire.
He currently serves as director of Instruments of Peace/ SafeNet (2003), a nonprofit reconciliation group for survivors of clergy sexual abuse and writes an online column on the healing process (A Room With A Pew). He is a resident of the San Francisco peninsula.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. ... events to challenge your wit and bring out a good giggle. I’ve enjoyed rereading many of the poems ... By Ms. Sweeney The Hollywood Catechism brings together many generations of pop culture and current events to challenge your wit and bring out a good giggle. I’ve enjoyed rereading many of the poems and looking for some of the more hidden double meanings. Being born in the 90’s, a couple of the names and phrases went over my head and after a quick Google search and Wikipedia skim, I not only learned some new pop culture references, but got a huge kick out of how every name and every phrase was so well placed. I highly recommend this collection of poems for anyone who wants to unlock the many messages Paul Fericano has left for us.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Larry, Moe and Curly meet Sister Mary By Dennis Dybeck Fericano’s latest foray is a delight. A serious exploration of his signature genre, “Stoogism”. As in “God Commands Kate Smith to Stop Singing That Song” : ...I hear that song one more time and I swear I start sending plagues. God Bless America my ass. What the hell is wrong with you people.Or when Larry, Curly and Moe find themselves at a party at John Wayne’s house where “Randolph Scott, Stuart Whitman, and Glenn Campbell...all drop acid” and begin beating up their host, “just for the hell of it”. When “John Wayne looks to the Stooges for help”, he finds they’re “too busy melting down his Oscar.”This isn’t to say that all is merry. Joe Dimaggio Explains Where He Has Gone is a three page, five part lament on lost youth and lost love, a silken read for all its length. In the penultimate section, Joe Di Maggio tells us : ...it feels like grief not mine but someone else's: an infield pop up hitting into a double play a slow dribbler down the first base line a strikeout looking in my final at bat. I kick the dirt back to the dugout...But in the last section, he remembers: ...I take the field a fortunate man her simple desire to be held her lucky embrace the only play that matters the only call that has a chance of going my way... ...what does it matter where I have gone? Isn’t it enough that I am here?Still, whenever things get heavy, the little Hollywood “prayers” bring us back: Halle Berry fool of none the Oscar is with thee. Blessed art thou among catwomen and blessed is the fruit of thy loom, Jockey...All in all, a great read. Not least. for those of us of a certain age, whose childhood Catholic education was as full of smacks as any Three Stooges movie.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. God Bless Fericano By Markob17 My focus is really on spiritual books. But I would have to admit that Paul Fericano's poetry is pretty much a religion in itself. If you're looking for poetry that is accessible, a little edgy, and always entertaining, give this book a try.
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