Local poet D. Alexander Holiday (aka G. Douglas Davis, IV) announces his new book, I Use to Fall Down, published by Troy Book Makers.
I am “revisiting” my earlier version of I Use To Fall Down because I really like what I did in first the chapbook version which only had the original fifty (50) poems in it. Then when I was ready to do a second book for an earlier publisher, I wanted to make the chapbook into a book, so I took the 50 poems (in their original layout), twenty-five from the first book and wrote twenty-five new pieces for this second book, for a total of one hundred pieces.
With this re-release, I wrote fifty pieces during the pandemic and with a new publisher (Troy Book Makers, who did two of my now eight books) and a new cover concept, I am pleased with the new pieces and the new book overall. Readers will get a smorgashboard of my political, social, personal, humorous acumen. I even wrote haikus for the first time for this new book.
The Black Authors Matter award-winning author received a MA from Albany State University. He is a recipient of the Spellman Award. He moderated a creative writing workshop in an area state maximum security prison and performs his volunteer duties as a liaison with the GBS/CIDP Foundation International. As a performance artist, he has read at open mics and on radio and television. His work appears in numerous journals and publications, among them Arts & Understanding Magazine, The Arabesque Review, and The Amherst Society. He still resides and writes in upstate New York.
