Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry) - Softcover

Lim, Sandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888553200 ISBN 13: 9781888553208

Verlag: Kore Press, 2009

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Críticas:

""Loveliest Grotesque" is a darkly fascinating book. It s a sweet, shape-shifting creature and a fun postmodern romp. Page after page fill with energetic surprises, keeping the reader intrigued formal quatrains juxtaposed against prose vignettes . . . short-line riffs against skinny sonnets against a ballad that spreads across the page. Smartness and punnyness abound, casting vibrant spins on overused Asian-American tropes. Finally, the slippery slope of too much fun might stop for a nano moment to contemplate an important existential question: 'Why were there manatees at all?' Obviously, the answer is this: after 9/11, in the new millennium, all formal discourses must explode, splinter and fragment and coalesce again into a new voice that rocks!" Marilyn Chin, poet and author, "Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen""

Reseña del editor:

The poems of Sandra Lim, collected together for the first time, demonstrate what happens when a poet with a startlingly conceptual (and at times dark) imagination has a reverence for traditional forms and marries the two together. The poems of this collection have frameworks that vary between formal and more experimental - sonnet, ballad, prose poem, pantoum, and free verse - and she pushes the formal forms to new limits with such revisions as replacing words with the generic overbo and onouno in the lines, as well as employing unpredictable imagery throughout the book that will appeal to the modern poetry fan.

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• Verlag: Kore Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1888553200
• ISBN 13: 9781888553208
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 59