of papers piled on naked wood planks. Much of his writing is steeped in politics, which is in his blood. (He recalls babysitting his cousin, the late Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas). One of his collections from 2004 is titled, The Candidates: A Political Handbook or The Bumbling Dwarfs in Pursuit of the Presidential Fruitcake. He says that he votes "giraffe" because the donkeys and the elephants don't have what it takes in the 21st century.
Tsongas doesn't know how many poems he's published, and he doesn't much care. To him, poetry is about "envisioning a future that goes beyond annihilation" and his job as a poet is to "describe reality beyond sight." It all comes down to sharing ideas.
from ELDR.com: North Beach Poet
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