Sentences and Rain
Autor Elaine Equien Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 oct 2015
Whether celebrating clones or revising Led Zeppelin, Equi melds verse with aphorism, wisdom with wicked playfulness."—Entertainment Weekly
Equi's poems are under the breath asides from your cleverest friend—witty, thoughtful, and wry.
SLIGHT
A slight implies
if not an insult
(real or imagined)
at least something
unpleasant --
a slight cold,
a slight headache.
No one ever says:
"You make me slightly happy."
Although this, in fact,
is often the case.
Widely published and anthologized, Elaine Equi's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Nation, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry.
Equi's poems are under the breath asides from your cleverest friend—witty, thoughtful, and wry.
SLIGHT
A slight implies
if not an insult
(real or imagined)
at least something
unpleasant --
a slight cold,
a slight headache.
No one ever says:
"You make me slightly happy."
Although this, in fact,
is often the case.
Widely published and anthologized, Elaine Equi's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Nation, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781566894210
ISBN-10: 1566894212
Pagini: 100
Dimensiuni: 147 x 226 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
ISBN-10: 1566894212
Pagini: 100
Dimensiuni: 147 x 226 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
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Recenzii
“Witty and zen-like . . . Each poem in this collection does the same thing. They build in insight and delight. Sentences and Rain is truly a masterwork that deserves to be read and disseminated through the population and through time.”—NewPages
“Equi relishes the stark, overlooked beauty of the quotidian in her curious, winding, fanciful 13th collection.”—Publishers Weekly
“[Equi is] genuinely funny—like all genuine humorists, she has depth, she picks targets, she’s patient, she takes aim . . . Equi gives us several drawing boards’ worth of characters, or friendly caricatures, framed in a wry, almost lighthearted nostalgia.”—American Poets
“[Equi’s poetry is] a gentle exercise in verbal gymnastics which delights the intelligence while at the same time not taking things too seriously. She stretches our imagination by writing lines that constantly surprise us and then makes us pause, as if holding a position, in order to ponder their meaning.”—Galatea Resurrects
“This bold and polished book of poetry is refreshing in its language and startling in its images. From the expected to the surprising, Equi has a sharp eye for detail in the world around her, and a keen way of capturing the moment for readers.“—Manhattan Book Review
“This collection will add breadth and depth to any personal library. The breezy tone of these thoughtfully crafted poems belies their underlying seriousness. . . . Equi’s elegantly charged sentences will continue to reverberate in the mind and in the heart.”—New York Journal of Books
“[Equi's] writing is both fluid and agile; there’s a free-flowing quality to it but also a sense of composed wit. Equi’s collection is an unabashed celebration of the pleasures of language.”—Harvard Crimson
“If you can imagine it, you can probably find it here in one of Equi’s lists of objects both real and surreal.”—Library Journal
"On every page of Sentences and Rain, Elaine Equi's latest collection of poetry, you will find...pages thrumming with the activity of an original imagination.”—KGB Bar Lit Magazine
“These spare yet elegant poems are electric, suave, and original. Equi so ably demonstrates a purity of sensibility coupled with peerless brilliance that we are left breathless as we read.”—The Journal(West Virginia)
“If there is a secret joy informing Equi’s poetry, it is in the way she accepts the world as it is, without quarrel and without illusions except those that are sanctioned by art. Like a still-life specialist she gets you to see not only the red flesh of the watermelon but the beauty of the black seeds on it.”—Best American Poetry blog
“Equi relishes the stark, overlooked beauty of the quotidian in her curious, winding, fanciful 13th collection.”—Publishers Weekly
“[Equi is] genuinely funny—like all genuine humorists, she has depth, she picks targets, she’s patient, she takes aim . . . Equi gives us several drawing boards’ worth of characters, or friendly caricatures, framed in a wry, almost lighthearted nostalgia.”—American Poets
“[Equi’s poetry is] a gentle exercise in verbal gymnastics which delights the intelligence while at the same time not taking things too seriously. She stretches our imagination by writing lines that constantly surprise us and then makes us pause, as if holding a position, in order to ponder their meaning.”—Galatea Resurrects
“This bold and polished book of poetry is refreshing in its language and startling in its images. From the expected to the surprising, Equi has a sharp eye for detail in the world around her, and a keen way of capturing the moment for readers.“—Manhattan Book Review
“This collection will add breadth and depth to any personal library. The breezy tone of these thoughtfully crafted poems belies their underlying seriousness. . . . Equi’s elegantly charged sentences will continue to reverberate in the mind and in the heart.”—New York Journal of Books
“[Equi's] writing is both fluid and agile; there’s a free-flowing quality to it but also a sense of composed wit. Equi’s collection is an unabashed celebration of the pleasures of language.”—Harvard Crimson
“If you can imagine it, you can probably find it here in one of Equi’s lists of objects both real and surreal.”—Library Journal
"On every page of Sentences and Rain, Elaine Equi's latest collection of poetry, you will find...pages thrumming with the activity of an original imagination.”—KGB Bar Lit Magazine
“These spare yet elegant poems are electric, suave, and original. Equi so ably demonstrates a purity of sensibility coupled with peerless brilliance that we are left breathless as we read.”—The Journal(West Virginia)
“If there is a secret joy informing Equi’s poetry, it is in the way she accepts the world as it is, without quarrel and without illusions except those that are sanctioned by art. Like a still-life specialist she gets you to see not only the red flesh of the watermelon but the beauty of the black seeds on it.”—Best American Poetry blog
Notă biografică
Elaine Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in Chicago and its outlying suburbs. In 1988, she moved to New York City with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. Over the years, her witty, aphoristic, and innovative work has become nationally and internationally known. Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and on the short list for Canada’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. Widely published and anthologized, her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Nation, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry. She teaches at New York University, and in the MFA Programs at the New School and the City College of New York.
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Dear Martyr
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The Honeycomb of Sleep
The Ones You Meet on the Way Up
Ode to Distraction
Repetition and Duration
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Vanilla Orchids
Darkness Adds Beauty
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Bardo Boulevard
C¿Mon, Really This Is Bullshit
Trees Rehearsing
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Backward Glance
The Lives of Statues
Better is Better than not Better
Happy Birthday, Doc!
Resounding
Zukofsky Revision
Becomes
A Medium Rare Serenade
A Gift
Serial Seeing
Haiku Centos
Bill Brandt
Phantom Anthem
The Winner
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Pegasus
Muffin of Sunsets
I Never Seem to Arrive
By the River of White Noise
Stationary Yet Adrift
Cardboard Figures in a Landscape
In Black and White
If I Have Just One Word
The Dark Age of Summer
Umbrella Photo Poems
Sentences and Rain
Royal Feathers
Numeric Values
Cut to the Chase
Jaillight
Yo y Tu
In Search of the Lost Diminutive
Slight
Dear Martyr
Let¿s Do Lunch
Pet Shop Fragment
Murmur and Motion
Dear Ovid
Pathos
A Story Begins
Games of Medieval Sadness
Imbibing
A Blue Humming
A Date with an Undertaker
The Dizzy Staircase
Reznikoff¿s Clocks
Time Traveler¿s Potlatch
Higher Power
Distant Relatives
The Honeycomb of Sleep
The Ones You Meet on the Way Up
Ode to Distraction
Repetition and Duration
The Repairman
Black Bag
Vanilla Orchids
Darkness Adds Beauty
Do You Think a Photocopy of a Snowflake Is More Beautiful than the Original?
Something¿s Coming
Varieties of Fire in Hilda Morley
Three Unrelated
Restaurant Art
Caught in a Downpour
Get In
Library of E
Library of J
Some
Metallic
Scrabble with the Illuminati
Blue Jay Way
Bardo Boulevard
C¿Mon, Really This Is Bullshit
Trees Rehearsing
The Courtyard
Backward Glance
The Lives of Statues
Better is Better than not Better
Happy Birthday, Doc!
Resounding
Zukofsky Revision
Becomes
A Medium Rare Serenade
A Gift
Serial Seeing
Haiku Centos
Bill Brandt
Phantom Anthem
The Winner
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Pegasus
Muffin of Sunsets
I Never Seem to Arrive
By the River of White Noise
Stationary Yet Adrift
Descriere
Equi's poems are under the breath asides from your cleverest friend—witty, thoughtful, and wry.