Egg Printing Explained (Salt Modern Poets) - Brossura

Evans-Bush, Katy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1844718220 ISBN 13: 9781844718221

Casa editrice: Salt Publishing, 2011

Riassunto

In a world where everything has more possible explanations than ever before, where no experience seems real unless it is refracted, this book examines love, loss, and time itself under a variety of lenses: these poems are made from other poems, from paintings, from songs, from spam emails, snapshots, jokes, dreams. We are the experts on our own existence, but what does it all mean?

Katy Evans-Bush has been praised for situating poetry in the heart of daily life, and her second collection is written in deep engagement with the sounds and colours of real and imaginative worlds. The French writer Nerval’s pet lobster takes us on a vibrant summer’s outing in nineteenth century Paris. Two playwrights in two centuries ponder happily on their unseen downfalls. A child dithers on a hot day, and a lover resorts to pure tactile expression at the moment it means the most.

A sharply-lit American childhood is seen as if through a telescope, from amid the mists of London and its layered lives. Ordinary objects act of their own accord; art speaks to us more than the person standing beside us; and the core of love remains the same while everything around it shapeshifts. One thing is certain, though: an egg is never just an egg.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Katy Evans-Bush was born in New York City. At the age of nineteen she moved to London, where she now has three children and a no-pets clause. An editor in the not-for-profit sector, she writes essays and reviews as well as poetry, is a regular contributor to the Contemporary Poetry Review, and is the author of the literary blog Baroque in Hackney.

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Steam Across the Quad, Baby!

Oh man, those Sunday lunches

before the Quad got bought and sent to a cat

with red eyes, who could never forget

the one just like it he sold ten years ago –

you all Ollie in a pinny and me Stan,

mincing and whisking past the pantry door, or

stopping to change LPs, find some Benny G’s

to score, Yeah, baby! That’s the sound the kids call

stirrin’ in the cream, the goulash boogie,

cookin’ up a Gershwin casserole,

now don’t you dare touch that orange-rimmed dial!

The smooth-faced dial that spun like a dream

and smiled sidelong at you in front of the stove, hey kids!

Let’s put on a show! – but the kids

are upstairs being 14 – oh,

who cares about them, down here it’s steam

and even the empty bottles are toppled by the sink,

Sing, Sing! the weekend gone,

and lunch and the night ahead of us; then Krupa

comes in with his famous solo bang bang

bang! and we turn up the volume and you act out

the time he did it with matchsticks on a matchbox,

with Barbara Stanwyck stood by in some squaresville dress,

tapping her arm and trying to look hip – hep – not

like us, Ollie – and Gene just goes crazy, and we always

say they must’ve glued the box to the table,

the way he’s going it could never have stuck like that.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Salt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1844718220
• ISBN 13: 9781844718221
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 92
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile