Elephant: Stahlecker Selections
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781954245310
ISBN-10: 1954245319
Pagini: 100
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: FOUR WAY BOOKS
Colecția Four Way Books
Seria Stahlecker Selections
ISBN-10: 1954245319
Pagini: 100
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: FOUR WAY BOOKS
Colecția Four Way Books
Seria Stahlecker Selections
Recenzii
"Soren Stockman's Elephant opens with seventeen short love poems, filled with raw passion and spirit. And then suddenly, we come to the second section, and the tone and landscape shift, slightly, into a world of the "Elephant Man," its imagistic power and mystery revealed-the other, the outcast, a human specimen to be doctored on. Indeed, love is woven into this urban space that defies time; but true "brotherly love" becomes the speaker's real quest as Elephant unfolds each gift."
-Yusef Komunyakaa
"I looked at my loneliness and could say nothing," writes Stockman in his debut. But these pages run away from that nothingness masterfully showcasing: love, shame, sensuality wrestling together. What a blessing Elephant is in the world, born ready to sing a tune that brings us out of solitude."
-Jose Javier Zamora
“What a beautiful book! These are remarkably wise poems, kind of a festival of wisdom, and then it turns whacky and I would even say piquant. Touching is exactly the word I mean about what I find here even when touch is the nullity Soren sounds. There is an abundance of the interior, Rilke being the easiest compare but Soren’s dedication to how the exterior wounds the soul and the soul carries on is the gift of this work that always unwinds and goes on, beautiful and beyond us. Spoiler alert! there are lots of poems in here I would call masterpiece.”
-Eileen Myles
“Soren Stockman's quirky poetics lay bare a private life in Elephant where readers will find a closeness akin to autobiography although the details never depend on autobiography. Further, like "a crow constructs / a tool from another tool and finds its food," Stockman presents a complex revealing of the legendary Elephant Man—and how he relates to and interrelates with this figure. Welcome this debut collection and Stockman's marvelous elliptical sleight of hand.”
-Kimiko Hahn
"From the fields of Wyoming to the New York stage, Soren Stockman’s poems of love and family are direct and forceful as they explore the powerful, unpayable debts that shape a self. Addiction, lust, anarchy—all are made tender in Stockman’s skill and imagination. Often inspired by theater and made alive by theater’s glittering and intoxicating illusions, Elephant shows us the beauty and pain of inhabiting a life and inhabiting a body.”
-Richie Hofmann
"Tennyson insisted, ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. With sober insistence, Soren Stockman’s lovely, lovesick debut Elephant echoes Tennyson’s sentiment for the ages, as it breaks your heart. Just as love will, inevitably, break your heart. And, like love, Elephant is worth it."
-Nicole Sealey
“Soren Stockman is a true poet who is interested in looking at the world without judging it. His debut book of poems, Elephant, is full of heart and reminds me that being alive is a singular experience. If you want to be reminded of that, read this book.”
-Alex Dimitrov
-Yusef Komunyakaa
"I looked at my loneliness and could say nothing," writes Stockman in his debut. But these pages run away from that nothingness masterfully showcasing: love, shame, sensuality wrestling together. What a blessing Elephant is in the world, born ready to sing a tune that brings us out of solitude."
-Jose Javier Zamora
“What a beautiful book! These are remarkably wise poems, kind of a festival of wisdom, and then it turns whacky and I would even say piquant. Touching is exactly the word I mean about what I find here even when touch is the nullity Soren sounds. There is an abundance of the interior, Rilke being the easiest compare but Soren’s dedication to how the exterior wounds the soul and the soul carries on is the gift of this work that always unwinds and goes on, beautiful and beyond us. Spoiler alert! there are lots of poems in here I would call masterpiece.”
-Eileen Myles
“Soren Stockman's quirky poetics lay bare a private life in Elephant where readers will find a closeness akin to autobiography although the details never depend on autobiography. Further, like "a crow constructs / a tool from another tool and finds its food," Stockman presents a complex revealing of the legendary Elephant Man—and how he relates to and interrelates with this figure. Welcome this debut collection and Stockman's marvelous elliptical sleight of hand.”
-Kimiko Hahn
"From the fields of Wyoming to the New York stage, Soren Stockman’s poems of love and family are direct and forceful as they explore the powerful, unpayable debts that shape a self. Addiction, lust, anarchy—all are made tender in Stockman’s skill and imagination. Often inspired by theater and made alive by theater’s glittering and intoxicating illusions, Elephant shows us the beauty and pain of inhabiting a life and inhabiting a body.”
-Richie Hofmann
"Tennyson insisted, ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. With sober insistence, Soren Stockman’s lovely, lovesick debut Elephant echoes Tennyson’s sentiment for the ages, as it breaks your heart. Just as love will, inevitably, break your heart. And, like love, Elephant is worth it."
-Nicole Sealey
“Soren Stockman is a true poet who is interested in looking at the world without judging it. His debut book of poems, Elephant, is full of heart and reminds me that being alive is a singular experience. If you want to be reminded of that, read this book.”
-Alex Dimitrov
Notă biografică
Soren Stockman's poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Bennington Review, BOAAT, Columbia Journal, H.O.W. Journal, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative, Painted Bride Quarterly, the PEN Poetry Series, The Recluse, Redivider, St. Petersburg Review, Southword Journal, Tin House, and Tupelo Quarterly, among others, while his prose has appeared in The Fanzine, Kenyon Review Online, and Playboy. His work was awarded First Place in the Narrative 30 Below Contest and was twice named a finalist for both the New Letters Prize for Poetry and the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, and has otherwise been a finalist in contests for Bellevue Literary Review, Cutbank Literary Journal, Gulf Coast, Memorious, and The Paris-American. Performance credits include "John Merrick" in The Elephant Man at the Wings Theater (2010), and more recently "Victor Pistachio" in Bloodshot (2020) and Bloodshot: The Call (2021), part of the Exponential Festival at Target Margin Theater Brooklyn, NY. Stockman is the recipient of fellowships from the Gloucester Writers Center, the Lacawac Artists' Residency, New York University, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and the Ucross Foundation. Elephant is his debut collection of poems.
Extras
To Be Born
When I was young I was really
an old man. I remember it, delicate
and spacious: aware I would
become more honest, feel natural,
knowing half of love
is need. A serious young man,
I had trouble saying yes
to the bright, clear days. With what
pitiful ease we could change -
our lives out, something else in
- but the tissue holds memory
we don't quite know. One
night, like a boxer dropping
his gloves, I answered
every question immediately.
Slowly we laughed more,
we were hysterical at night
and morning blew the doors open.
I ate a radish, never contracted
chicken pox, my singing improved
and women never stopped looking.
Then my friends began to die.
They passed through the beautiful old
maples I watch from my window.
What a blessing to love the world
and then finally be born.
When I was young I was really
an old man. I remember it, delicate
and spacious: aware I would
become more honest, feel natural,
knowing half of love
is need. A serious young man,
I had trouble saying yes
to the bright, clear days. With what
pitiful ease we could change -
our lives out, something else in
- but the tissue holds memory
we don't quite know. One
night, like a boxer dropping
his gloves, I answered
every question immediately.
Slowly we laughed more,
we were hysterical at night
and morning blew the doors open.
I ate a radish, never contracted
chicken pox, my singing improved
and women never stopped looking.
Then my friends began to die.
They passed through the beautiful old
maples I watch from my window.
What a blessing to love the world
and then finally be born.