Routine Disruptions
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.54 (955 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566890772 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among many books and projects, here culled by journeyman publisher Bamberger, Elmslie's musical The Glass Harp hit Broadway at the time an early book of poems, Album, was published in 1969. There and elsewhere, we find him employing the all-embracing urbane surrealism, spontaneity and wit of the New York School to create poems suffused with the flux of bourgeois vacuity, social marginality, and merciless sexual ambitions. Witness selections from "Panopticon for Calamity Winifred": "Twister Bea's asparagus wobble suffused the maw of August dusk,/ rancid from wetsuits, yahoos in spa pools dunked./ Formulaic, yeah,/ but the promised porn classics got born again last Ozzie & Harriet day/ as virgin surf foam, components a-swirl." Other poems (such as the title poem) att
A primo collection by a superbly talented poet Kenward Elmslie's poetry has won him many fans over the years, but this book, adeptly edited by W.C. Bamberger, reveals not only the range but the depth of a superb talent. What I admire most about Elmslie is the risk and daring of his poetic project. Sometimes the mood is bleakly sad, sometimes ironic, sometimes sweet, bitter or blue, for here is a poet willing to engage in history, spectacle, emotion. When William Carlos Williams defined poetry as the "machine made of words," could he have been predicting, like Nostradamus, this mad, clean, incisive orgasmatron? Always he's polyphonous, always
This long awaited "selected" presents the full range of Elmslie's inventive, vulnerable, lyrical and autobiographical work.