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ABOUT
Born near a forest in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Named after my father and my great grandfather, both Antonio. Attended parochial grade school and pagan high schools. Dropped out of Rutgers University. First poems published on the front page of alternative weekly Distant Drummer in Philadelphia. My daughter, granddaughter and family still live in the Philadelphia – South Jersey area.
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NOMADICS
Wilderness. Pocatello, Idaho. San Ysidro, New Mexico. Studied acting at Theatre Artaud, San Francisco. Many poems in many magazines. Many theatre festivals in Europe with SOON 3 Theatre. Rome, Ancona, Dubrovnik. First book published in Morro Bay, California.
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NOMADICS
Private investigations, word environments, chapbooks. Cinemas and book shops. Sonoma, Napa, Redway. Oregon. The Ion & Light Company. Centrum and Djerassi Residency Fellowships.
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NOMADICS
Managed forest reserve on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Toured remote locations in California with AGP Video. Some years in corporate theatre with my brothers and sisters of Local 510 Sign Display and Allied Crafts, San Francisco.
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NOMADICS
Married Caroline Bowler and moved to England in 2007. Southwest France and Mallorca. The hilltown of Arpino. Venafro and Rocco Calascio in Abruzzo. Venice. At festivals and readings I am still introduced as a San Francisco poet, which is only partly true: many years in San Francisco, but nine years in Hawai’i and more in Europe.
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NOMADICS
Click www.terraincognita.50megs.com/darpino.html for an excerpt (in both English and a Spanish translation) from St Bonaventure’s Island.
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