Screaming Skull
Tony Nesca was born in Torino, Italy in 1965 and moved to Canada at the age of three. He was raised in Winnipeg but relocated back to Italy several times until finally settling in Winnipeg in 1980. He taught himself how to play guitar and formed an original rock band playing the local bars for several years. At the age of twenty-seven he traded his guitar for a Commodore 64 and started writing seriously. He has published six chapbooks of stories and poems (which he used to sell straight out of his knapsack at local dives and bookstores), six novels, five books of poetry and stories and has been an active contributor to the underground lit scene for fifteen years, being published in innumerable magazines both online and in print.
"I believe in playing around with language and the so-called rules of grammar and feel that rhythm and beat are just as important as story. Unlike someone like Charles Bukowski or Hemingway or Raymond Carver I am not trying to put the word down as simply and straightforward as possible, quite the opposite actually. I try to get to meaning and truth by a musical cascade of words flowing and sometimes bursting down the page, and I am just as influenced by rock and roll as I am by the literary greats. My writing has to sound like music, it has to dance down the page in magnificent chaos and happy madness." - Read our interview with Tony Nesca on The Crazy Mind Magazine.
