Synopses & Reviews
“A trailblazing work.”—Lewis Warsh
“An auspicious debut. . . . Stripped of artifice and the mere effects of formal pyrotechnics, these poems move by ear and intellect, pushing and pulling at the real with precision and mystery.”—Ammiel Alcalay
“Poetry reinvents itself in Plato’s cave, where nothing can be seen but the mind’s agile resources climbing the walls of our present, real world. Perplexed at the moment of certainty, estranged at the moment of intimacy, these poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them.”—Ann Lauterbach
Synopsis
"A trailblazing work."--Lewis Warsh
"An auspicious debut. . . . Stripped of artifice and the mere effects of formal pyrotechnics, these poems move by ear and intellect, pushing and pulling at the real with precision and mystery."--Ammiel Alcalay
"Poetry reinvents itself in Plato's cave, where nothing can be seen but the mind's agile resources climbing the walls of our present, real world. Perplexed at the moment of certainty, estranged at the moment of intimacy, these poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them."--Ann Lauterbach
Synopsis
"In Anna Moschovakis's marvelous first book, poetry reinvents itself in Plato's cave."--Ann Lauterbach
Synopsis
Poetry. Anna Moschovakis lives in Brooklyn and in Delaware County, NY. In addition to writing poetry, she translates French fiction, theory and verse, and since 2002 has been an editor and designer with the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse. She teaches at Pratt Institute. "In Anna Moschovakis's marvelous first book, poetry reinvents itself in Plato's cave, where nothing can be seen but the mind's agile resources climbing the walls of our real, present world. Perplexed at the moment of certainty, estranged at the moment of intimacy, [these] poems.illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them"--Ann Lauterbach.
About the Author
The daughter of two mathematical logicians, Anna Moschovakis was raised in L.A, studied philosophy and French at UC Berkeley and the Sorbonne. MA, Bard and she is in the PhD program at CUNY while working as an editor at ESPN, and Ugly Duckling Presse, adjuct professoring at Queens College and performing in the rock band SeaFoxx.