please allow me to introduce myself:
my name is tommy trantino --
i want you to know this site is open to all my friends
and that i have no enemies
i am on this planet to serve
interesting and challenging things are in the cooker
keep coming back
Feed your head
HAPPY ETERNAL SPRING to one and all!
-tommy trantino
"The first few pages stunned me, and I never recovered. I haven't read a book in a long time that has hit me so hard - a book so fierce, so poetic, so wise, so heartbreaking. It exposes our time in a way which will embarrass us all before our grandchildren." -Howard Zinn, writing about Tommy Trantino's Lock the Lock (1973)
"Tommy Trantino found himself in prison. Just who he was: a poet, writer and artist. Or pure and simple: Tommy Trantino was a liberated human being." -Irving Stettner, editor of Stroker
"I hear Trantino calling to the soul of the world, in his own language, by his own hand. Who can change the world? The entire world? Just one person in one prison cell, Thomas Trantino... a caller of the Great Call." - Allen Ginsberg
"But now, by some inexplicable mystery, Tommy Trantino has given us the works - from A to TZZIT. He has put it all in one book replete with maniacal illustrations as a handbook to Eternity." - Henry Miller
COMING SOON:
convicted of killing two policemen
sentenced to death
8 years in solitary confinement in the DEATH HOUSE
death sentence overturned and changed to life sentence
life in prison
transformation resurrection
peace activist
artist
friends behind the walls and beyond them
39 consecutive years in prison
the politics of it all
love life
freedom
t blue eyes blog
tvideos
Yo! Tommy T. What up? Just tryin' to reach out to you, bro. And no disrespect, but you have some very 'hot' lookin' gals on your friends list. I sure as hell wouldn't mind meetimg one or two of them! Booyah!!!
T., Gioia and I enjoyed listening to the tunes you posted. I've also been meaning to tell you that the drawing-poem on your blog is extremely beautiful. I love the details, and the drawing evokes a lot of soul. It tells a powerful story. best wishes from your pal, Ev
I was turned onto you by Irv Stettner in Stroker. The brutal realism of your writing style is a major inspiration. I sent a copy of Stroker of 35 to Henry Rollins in the hopes he will talk about you and your life and let more people know about you.
