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Genine Lentine's new chapbook, a finalist in the NMP/DIAGRAM 2009
chapbook contest, is a great debut. "Reading Genine Lentine's
poems--so ardent and playful, risky and affecting--I kept thinking
that it's not true, what Ren Char once said, that 'no bird has the
heart to sing in a thicket of questions.' These poems plunge
headlong into uncertainties of both language and life and, in doing
so, they are so original that I often felt while reading them that
I was in the grip of a brand new and still unnamed emotion."
--Richard McCann "These clear, refreshing acts of attention seem to
wake us to another way of seeing, and to the problems and pleasures
of saying what we see. Have we taken the act of speech for granted
all along? In her short, formally inventive pieces--and especially
in her dazzling long poem about language's power and limits that
anchors this collection--Lentine sounds like no one else. Her wry,
astonished, aching voice is a fresh presence in American poetry."
--Mark Doty "Beautiful experiments from the spiraling ladder of
someone who has spread out her root hairs and patiently attends the
right words to assign; one who is there to honor the instant
something shimmers before it disappears, be 'it' the meaning of
'all this' or the lack thereof, not unlike Mr. Worthington
photographing a droplet's splash he so ingeniously rigged to
measure. And what doesn't Genine Lentine's aqueous breath expel--a
disquisition on Softsoap, a sideways look at the motivational
expression of Grenville Kleiser, the speed of sperm, along with a
little consideration of the comma, the prefix un-, the contour of a
vowel. Ms. Lentine's experiments begin and end with the parent body
as it breaks away, that 'which asks nothing of us, only that we're
here for it.'" She is here. --C.D. Wright "These thrilling
poems--restless, calm, reckless, wise--interrogate themselves by
hovering over moments of aching beauty, as well as utter
bewilderment, until they become the world itself." --Nick Flynn
This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is
a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and
poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951)
extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set of Funk
& Wagnall's Universal Standard Encyclopedia (ca. 1953-56) and
began visually re-editing. Thousands of images rendered by
photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid-century
encyclopedia are reconfigured with 21st-century hindsight and
idiosyncratic connections that convey social and artistic
commentaries. Surrealism, humor, sarcasm, politics, history, and
beauty permeate these sometimes raucous, often confounding, but
consistently stunning images. Over 500 black-and-white collages are
accompanied by twenty-five poems, one per encyclopedia volume,
commissioned by Chin and author Nick Flynn specifically for this
publication. Writers range from the well-known to the surprising.
The Funk & Wag from A to Z offers mischievous fun with pointed
commentary and hilarity. Distributed for The Menil Collection
Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and
tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations,
none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004.
Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination," the
explorations journey through personal recollections, the creative
process, and the harmony of the life cycle. A bouquet of poems and
a total of 26 full-color photographs accompany the various
sections. The Wild Braid received a 2006 American Horticultural
Society Book Award. "A miracle." Galway Kinnell "No one who has
ever gardened passionately will be a stranger to the sentiments
Kunitz expresses about this act of domestic creation, but very few
of us will ever come close to writing about it with his grace and
clarity. This is indeed a book to cherish." Kate Tyndall, Raleigh
News & Observer"
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