Begging for It (Stahlecker Selections) (Signed First Edition)

Alex Dimitrov

ISBN 10: 1935536265 / ISBN 13: 9781935536260

Verlag: Four Way Books, New York (Tribeca), 2013

Beschreibung

First printing. A fine copy. A clean, unmarked copy. This book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. This copy has been SIGNED, warmly inscribed, and dated in the month of publication by Dimitrov to McClatchy ("Sandy") on the title page, as pictured. ASSOCIATION copy.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers McClatchy-427

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Begging for It (Stahlecker Selections) (Signed First Edition)
• Verlag: Four Way Books, New York (Tribeca)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1935536265
• ISBN-13: 9781935536260
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Association Copies
  • Poetry
  • Signed Poetry

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

"Alex Dimitrov leads us through the streets, bridges, and bedrooms of New York City, sometimes as far away as Buenos Aires and Iceland, and as close as our own darkest corners. A Bulgarian immigrant, Dimitrov writes as both observer of and fervent participant in an "American youth," as his speakers navigate both the physical and emotional landscapes of desire, intimacy, and longing--whether for a friend, a lover, or a self, "Saint or stranger, I still recklessly seek you." Throughout the collection, we are consistently rooted in place: a seemingly American place, a New York place, an emotional space in which "the body becomes a cage you can't feel your way out of." In one poem, we meet Hart Crane at the St. Mark's Baths; in another, the speaker is reading Montaigne while a car crashes into the Gowanus Canal. Dimitrov invokes Rimbaud, Proust, Wilde, Barthes, Sontag, even James Franco. A contemporary coming-of-age in which the speakers are as much immersed in the present as they are plagued and enchanted by the past, this collection is very much alive. And even as Dimitrov assures us that "we were given more than we can drown," he warns, almost seductively: "Don't worry. No one is spared.""--Publisher's website.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ALEX DIMITROV was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and lives in NYC. A recipient of the 2011 Stanley Kunitz Prize from The American Poetry Review, he is the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in NYC, works at the Academy of American Poets, teaches creative writing at Rutgers University, and frequently writes for Poets & Writers magazine.