Background
Weil, Joseph David was born on March 24, 1958 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. Son of Rocky John and Clare Irene Weil.
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In Painting the Christmas Trees, Joe Weil explores the meaning of neighborhood, both its rootedness and its transience in terms of the port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, in which he was formed as a poet. His work mixes different registers of language, from the Rust Belt working class speech of his family and friends to the poetic influences of his first reading: Roethke, Williams, Stevens, and Yeats. His Irish Catholic working class upbringing instills his poetry with a sense of communion. The poems in this book are anchored to the loss and the brio of people he has known and worked among both as a toolmaker and as a poet. He is essentially a spiritual comic in so far as his interest lies as much with the vitally ugly and broken as it does with the smoothly eloquent. Unlike many volumes of poetry, Painting the Christmas Trees is full of characters, not unlike a novel. Weil believes a poet should reclaim the name of storyteller. He is not ashamed to be one.
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Weil, Joseph David was born on March 24, 1958 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. Son of Rocky John and Clare Irene Weil.
Bachelor, Empire State University, New York, 2008.
Editor Black Swan Review, Baron Art Center Poetry Series, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1988—2008, director, 1988—2005. Founder literature magazine and director poetry series Black Swan Review, Body Parts, Anti-Lawn, Cranford, 1988—2008. Poet school Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, various cities, New Jersey, 1998—2008.
Editor New Jersey Poetry Resource Book, Paterson, 1999—2006. Musician Mooks, Vestal, New York, 2006—2008, composer, 2006—2008.
( In Painting the Christmas Trees, Joe Weil explores the ...)