Randolph College Visiting Writer Series: Anthony D'Aries reads from his memoir Aural History, Part 1

Randolph College Visiting Writer Series: Anthony D'Aries reads from his memoir Aural History, Part 1 Tube. Duration : 7.45 Mins.

A mash-up of music, masculinity, and the vibrant cultural clashes of the 1970s, Anthony D'Aries' completed memoir Aural History artfully explores the dynamics of family against a Pollackesque backdrop of pop, politics, and patrimony. In this excerpt, The Beatles' Let It Be, The Who's Tommy, and final machine-gun blasts of Jimi Hendrix's guitar interweave with the opening scenes of Catch-22, Patton, The French Connection, Woodstock, and MASH, as President Richard Nixon invites Johnny Cash to the White House, commences bombing in Cambodia, and promises to end the war in Viet Nam. D'Aries vividly captures the tension of the times, personalizing the drama through the eyes of his father departing for the jungles of South East Asia. Beck, Ani DiFranco, and River Phoenix are born. Simon and Garfunkel break up. John Lennon releases his first solo album. John Kerry joins the anti-war movement. And D'Aries takes it all in. A graduate of Emerson College with a MFA from the lauded University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast writing program, D'Aries was Randolph College's Emerging Writer-in-Residence in the spring of 2011. A resident of Boston, he's devoted himself to teaching literacy and writing to inmates of several Massachusetts correctional facilities. In 2010 D'Aries received the PEN New England Discovery Award in Nonfiction. His work has appeared in Solstice Magazine and an excerpt of Aural History will be published later this year in The Literary Review. He also contributed to ...

Keywords: Randolph College, Liberal Arts College, Memoir, Anthony D'Aries, Bunny Goodjohn, PEN New England, Pinchback Press, The Literary Review, Emerson College, USM Stonecoast