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More copies of this ISBN:Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poemsby Elaine Equi
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"Elaine Equi's narrow lines are like the rungs of a ladder that one ascends while one is descending them. It's a motion like that in Wang Wei's lines, Stars / float up / toward dawn,'which she quotes in her cento, Wang Wei's Moon.'Or, as she beautifully puts it, Discreetly a breeze enters the room.'"-John Ashbery Ripple Effectshowcases thirty years of Elaine Equi's investigations into our cultural obsessions. Vivid, savvy, and accessible, her poems can transform almost anything-a list, a diary entry, advertising speak-into sophisticated, germane elixirs of pop culture and high art. Widely published, these poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review,and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry. Review:"Always wry and often startling and whimsical, this first selected from Equi (Surface Tension) gathers poems from more than two decades. Fascinated with popular culture and gender — from glossy women's magazines to New York streetscapes — and with the bare bones of ordinary language, Equi's short, usually short-lined, poems navigate territory framed by Robert Creeley, Rae Armantrout and Emily Dickinson. 'I make decisions/ or my body/ makes them for me,' Equi concludes. Alongside such lapidary self-portraits come pithy claims about perception, attraction and bias: 'The beautiful/ and the hideous// often conspire/ in an empire/ of appearance.' There are also sets of epigrams; poems arranged as terse outlines and lists; and moments of bitter humor, often at the expense of previous art. In 'Pre-Raphaelite Pinups,' 'The wallpaper is the real center of attention,/ the figures mostly background music.' Forty-seven new poems only rarely match the best of Equi's '90s work, though any disappointment should be slight: 'At some point/ while still living/ here/ I had already/ moved away.'" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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