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Tony Nesca

Tony Nesca

Bio: Tony Nesca was born in Torino, Italy in 1965 and moved to Canada at the age of three. He was raised in Winnipeg but relocated back to Italy several times until finally settling in Winnipeg in 1980. He taught himself how to play guitar and formed an original rock band playing the local bars for several years. At the age of twenty-seven he traded his guitar for a Commodore 64 and started writing seriously. He has published six chapbooks of stories and poems (which he used to sell straight out of his knapsack at local dives and bookstores), four novels, a novella, a book of poetry and has been an active contributor to the underground lit scene for ten years, being published in innumerable magazines both online and in print. He currently writes a monthly article for Poetic Monthly and he resides in Winnipeg.

Genres: Literary fiction, poetry, free-form, stream of consciousness, urban poetry

Main Website:: www.tonynesca.blogspot.com

Other Websites: www.myspace.com/tnesca

Influences: Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Papa Hemingway, Micheal Turner, Hunter S. Thomson, Aldous Huxley, Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, D.H. Lawrence, Mark Twain, Anais Nin, Evelyn Lau, Kurt Vonnegut, Dylan Thomas, Rimbaud, Moupassant, Margaret Atwood, Celine, Chekov, the comic book/graphic novel Love and Rockets by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, ain't nothing better...alright...

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A SHORT STORY...

this appears in my novel "the do-nothing boys" as a seperate piece involving the characters of the book...this is the first place it's ever been posted...i let this one go, i let it lead me all over the page, all i did was follow...this is pure stream-of-consciousness, not a single word, comma or sentence altered...hope you dig it, i do...

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Posted by Tony Nesca on January 17th, 2008 at 10:17pm — 2 Comments (Add)

another excerpt from my latest novel, 'the do-nothing boys"...

THE DO-NOTHING BOYS

There were ten or twen…

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Posted by Tony Nesca on January 15th, 2008 at 1:53am — 1 Comment (Add)

SONGS OF THE UNLUCKY

give me painful pleasure
sing the songs of the unlucky
show me your nasty love-gone-wild
your agonizing soft-touch-beauty
your tasty ganja-lips in the moonlight
world distant madness
timeless luck in the deadly sun
give me the songs of the unloved
distant saxophone blowing kisses
give me what you got…

Posted by Tony Nesca on January 15th, 2008 at 1:48am — 1 Comment (Add)

ORANGE PHOENIX SUNDAY

where's the distant rock and roll ra…

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Posted by Tony Nesca on January 15th, 2008 at 12:59am — 1 Comment (Add)

SOME POETRY FOR YOU CRAZY KIDS

WORD MUSIC

deadly silence got me low-down-hungry
thinking about that hot-dog stand on the dismal corner
beside the old beggar hand extended 16 year old
virgin in hot-pants looking mad-bad-dangerous crimson
fireball streaking across the sky middle-aged hooker
front tooth missing she beckoning my weary ass
one I love absent in world-gone-hungry
Dixieland trio singing happy songs amidst angry
downtown laughter lo…

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Posted by Tony Nesca on January 8th, 2008 at 5:56am — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 9:44am on April 21st, 2008, AngelLesa said…: Good Morning and have a great day.
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At 1:05pm on February 8th, 2008, C. Boylan said…: hokay
i'm off home in a minute
take care and have a good weekend

At 11:58am on February 8th, 2008, C. Boylan said…: hokay, no worries.

i do like the style you write in
and i haven't read much 'beats' stuff myself
so i shouldn't really run my mouth off
but it was the closest i could get to articulation

i've got 'howl' though and like it too

thing is, life is so full of drugs
i'm seeking anything else that people can offer me
reaffirmation of life-having-a-point kind of thing
if you dig me?
personal quest i guess

that's the first time i've mentioned 'the beats' like that and i won't do it again to anyone because i think i got 'writing freely' confused with the Beats and that's wrong

thanks for the feedback

At 12:40pm on January 28th, 2008, C. Boylan said…: Hi, thanks for your comment and reading my stuff.

At 7:32am on January 26th, 2008, Stevie Gray said…: Hey. Hope things are good for you. x

At 12:09am on January 22nd, 2008, Jinx said…: Thanks for the add. =)

At 9:32pm on January 17th, 2008, maria said…: Hi Tony good to see you on here, I need something like this myspace is more a distraction, look forward to reading your new stuff. x

At 2:51pm on January 8th, 2008, Wendy Grimsley said…: hey Tony, check out the support group http://writersprizefighters.ning.com/group/writersprizefighterssupportgroup when I get home, I'll link your books up there so that people can check them out

At 5:07am on January 8th, 2008, Paul Grimsley said…: very good to see you here, my friend!

At 4:14am on January 8th, 2008, C. Boylan said…: Great to see that you've got loads posted here; if you use the 'write' tool to post work though, it makes it easier for us to read and give ya some feedback.
I like your style.