ABOUT THE BOOK
The Argonauts (Nelson) meets See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die (Rollins) in this raw & rattling Memoir-meets-Chapbook spanning more than 10 years of writing! Rummagings of journals, shoebox scraps, forgotten notes, and letters to loved ones come together to tell one writer's coming-of-age and his quest for unconditional self-love by dissecting his darkness. Each one-year chapter explores love, regret, identity, existence, ambition, depression, and the insanity of it all, neatly coming to a close with Constantine Dhonau's fireside banter of contextual backstory for each chapter.
Book Details
Title: Collateral Inentions
Author: Constantine
Dhonau
Genre: memoir, poetry
Published: June 1, 2021
Print length: 220
pages
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A few of your favorite things: bathrobe, slippers.
Things you need to throw out: bathrobe, slippers.
Things you need in order to write: space.
Things that hamper your writing: self-criticism.
Things you love about writing: clearing my head.
Things you hate about writing: overthinking it after the fact.
Easiest thing about being a writer: sharing an experience.
Hardest thing about being a writer: a blank page.
Things you love about where you live: enormous mountains.
Things that make you want to move: small town dating pool.
Things you never want to run out of: gratitude, hope, choice.
Things you wish you’d never bought: meme stocks.
Words that describe you: sharp, gritty, quiet, loud, observant, pointed, driven.
Words that describe you but you wish they didn’t: stoic, lax, lazy, critical.
Favorite foods: mangoes, pistachio & dark chocolate chip ice cream, Rueben sandwiches.
Things that make you want to throw up: cheese, anchovies & whipped cream.
Favorite music or song: punk, EDM, rap.
Music that make your ears bleed: jam bands.
Favorite smell: exhaust from the dryer.
Something that makes you hold your nose: freshly-emptied alley dumpsters.
Something you’re really good at: keeping quiet.
Something you’re really bad at: keeping quiet.
Something you wish you could do: teleport.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: procrastinate.
Something you like to do: walk.
Something you wish you’d never done: made up somebody else’s mind for them.
Last best thing you ate: fruit smoothie.
Last thing you regret eating: too much ice cream.
Things you’d walk a mile for: the hell of it.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: rescuey, motherly tones.
Things you always put in your books: notes in the margins.
Things you never put in your books: proper bookmarks.
Things to say to an author: “I like (specific detail/part) in your book.”
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “that’s deep.”
Favorite places you’ve been: Spain, Redwood Forest, Alaska.
Places you never want to go to again: L.A.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: jumped out of a plane solo.
Something you chickened out from doing: asking her out.
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