The New York Editions (Poets Out Loud)
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823278158 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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The multiple voices that call to us from this place are ghostlike, to the extent that the force of their coiled abandon feels tethered to bodies in no familiar way. The New York Editions chronicles the effort of inhabiting while doing justice to the approximate wilderness of all those variously perceptible disturbances that set the world ajar just enough to feel the draught of an adjacent universe pouring in. These mesmeric poems are experimental meditations on the limbo of lost-in-translation as a multi-axial bardo between multiples lives and texts and those that follow, which they might foreseeably become were these poems not so distinctly wed to a jewel-like present
Grandly honorific, deliriously lapidary, and sexy as hell, these poems are aflourish with gifts. "The seasons of Henry Jamesthe stirring hesitations and queer speculation and spoiled opportunities and inner disquisitionsare the scintillating scrim through which each of these poems is shot, venting the novelist’s fabric and retaining something of his sensorium on their way elsewhere. These highly original, deliciously unpredictable, exquisitely fitted, embodied poems account and construct a contemporary erotics that rouses Jamesian mentation. They're for you. Snediker's ear is spectacularly tunedto surprise, to insistence, to beauty; his intelligence is coiled, fervent, avid, and inspiring. 'And only after will yo
Snediker is the author The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, a Lambda finalist for Best Gay Poetry, and Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions, a finalist for the MLA First Book Prize. He's an Associate Professor of American Literature and Poetics at the University of Houston..