Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Celona's poems teeter on the edge of propriety, are by turns playful, even cocky, and are laden with self-doubt. Whether extolling the virtues of ego salad or locating the Louvre "in Paris, / or wherever the Louvre may be now," Celona brings a feline wittiness to the act of writing, which she alludes to with a fervency and frequency that border on neurosis. "This poem is only for girls," Celona states with infuriating certainty, daring the reader to challenge her in prose poems that stake out a world where men capriciously cross out their wives and "poetry, too, is bad for you." These sometimes scatological, often buoyant poems juxtapose squalid fact with incandescent images, certainties around which bafflement and pain become organized, against which the distances between people, between penguins, between words and feelings, between beginning with intention and becoming lost, can be measured.
Synopsis
These sometimes scatological, often buoyant poems juxtapose squalid fact with incandescent images, certainties around which bafflement and pain become organized, against which the distances between people, between penguins, between words and feelings, between beginning with intention and becoming lost, can be measured.
Synopsis
These sometimes scatological, often buoyant poems juxtapose squalid fact with incandescent images.
About the Author
TINA BROWN CELONA was born in 1974 to an American Foreign Service officer and his Vietnamese wife. She grew up in Tokyo, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, and Washington, DC. She received degrees from Brown University and the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her husband is the poet, Matt Celona. Fence Books published The Real Moon of Poetry and Other Poems in 2002. Magazine publications include Octopus, Shampoo, La Petite Zine and Puppyflowers. Her poems have appeared in Explosive!, Epoch and Fence. She lives in Lyons, CO.