Starred Wire (National Poetry Series Books (Paperback))

By Mlinko, Ange

Publishers Summary:
"A fine-grained light like that of a nineteenth-century Danish landscape painting shimmers throughout these gorgeously tactile and tactful poems."-John Ashbery "A heady heady brew-O'Hara conversation, Ashbery sophistication, Koch hilarity, Schuyler shapeliness, Guest adventures, Notley grain, Mayer utopia, Padgett whimsy, Oulipo oofs."-Bob Holman, National Poetry Series judge Mlinko was hailed by Publishers Weekly as "one of the most exciting American poets under 40." Her Starred Wire reaches across continents of language where, as in Borges, dream logic dictates an interactive, delirious exploration of art and childhood, place and possibility. Author of Matinees, Ange Mlinko lives in Brooklyn with her husband and young son.

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ISBN
978-1-56689-177-6
Publisher
Coffee House Press


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Library Journal

Reviewed on April 1, 2006

A National Poetry Series winner, Mlinko offers a second collection (afterMatines ) that should be subtitled "Poems as Aural Collage." In these free-verse poems, Mlinko lets one word lead her to the next, helped by figures of sound-especially alliteration, assonance, consonance, and perfect and slant rhyme. The effect resembles overhearing a few lines from various songs while standing in a noisy crowd. ItïÂÂ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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