| Description |
1 online resource (58 pages) |
| Series |
Wick Poetry First Book ; v. 9 |
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Wick Poetry First Book
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| Contents |
Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; I; The Drowned Girl; False Prophets; Notes on Desire; The Catch; When I Was Crazy; The Means of Production; H.R.H.; Sleeping at The Plaza; Exile; II; The Wake; "On Tuesday, October 25,1994 ... "; I Rescue; II Inversion; Pandora; Passage; III; beginning; Composition; Sex, Semiotics, Roadsigns, etc.; Homecoming; Rape; Anatomy; Girl; Unfinished bodies in the dark; The Exchange; Botanica; Blue; Heroine; Note |
| Summary |
Rare in any age is work which incorporates a passion for experience, a commitment to truth, an ability to plumb the irrational, and a fluency in poetic language and music which can work through all these tangled thickets, but Eve Alexandra does just that? This is true poetry; it immediately takes its place as a participant in the vast historical voice which composes poetry, a voice which contains ten-thousand tones, but which takes nothing until itself which doesn't resonate, as do the poems of The Drowned Girl, with authenticity and fervor. C.K. Williams, Judge. One of the things I find compelling about Eve Alexandra's poems is that, while the narrator is seductive and beautiful, she is not pleasing. She does not offer comfort. She is not kind of solicitous. Like Ariel, who performs the tempest for Prospero, Alexandra, too, is a tempest-res: these are the storms and drownings of her own invention. Like Ariel's bedeviling and gorgeous tunes composed to tease the sorrowful, these are poems of the taunt and tease, the razor in the apple. Lynn Emmanuel. Something bright and reflective, something lucid and exacting glints at the center of this fleshy, original debut. Is it a needle? Is it a scalpel? Is it a scythe? Is it the switchblade a woman might carry in her purse? Eve Alexandra wields a tender, sharp honesty. The lines cut and dice, arc and glimmer in the light of her lyricism and intelligence. These poems will open you, make you bleed, make you wonder. Terrance Hayes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781612773841 |
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1612773842 |
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