Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background

Wayne Koestenbaum

ISBN 10: 1933527609 / ISBN 13: 9781933527604

Editore: Turtle Point Press, US, 2012

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Koestenbaum's book of poems minces memory and culture into titbits to propose a new 'nude' poetics. The collection draws upon his signature themes - stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation - and cuts them into serial strips. Using techniques such as pointillism, mosaic, aphorism, litany and philosophical investigation, the poet trips through a memory theatre whose luminaries range from Yvonne De Carlo to Hannah Arendt and assembles melancholy tesserae into tidily stanzaic sacrificial offerings.

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• Titolo: Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background
• Editore: Turtle Point Press, US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1933527609
• ISBN 13: 9781933527604
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 186 grammi

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Riassunto

Fast, obsessive, jumpy, tender, and joyful, the poems in Wayne Koestenbaum's Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background take his signature themes?stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation?and cut them into serial strips: tidbits that employ techniques of pointillism, mosaic, grid, aphorism, litany, and philosophical investigation.

The luminaries in this memory-theater range from Yvonne de Carlo to Hannah Arendt. A trip to Venice and an invocation to an eschatological ice-cream man are the two longest trysts in a book exquisitely composed of "bits" that betoken a new brutalism in a writer known for svelte cadences and artful dodges.

Recensione

Wayne Koestenbaum’s brilliant new collection is like a lurid coloring book of Fauvist Depravity.” Playfully perverse, his poems reinvent the lyrical, satirical barb for our moment. And they’re as telling as they are outrageous. Where else could we meet the Mrs. Robinson of Abstract Expressionism” or experience the joy of biting the wolfman’s wombat ass.” This scholar of excess is off the cuff, over the top, and always on the money!
Elaine Equi

Like a desiccated David Markson novel, this addictively readable book of minimalist pop koans welds the body to the page. Strained through dreamspace, refracted by mediaspace and enacted in meatspace, these poems refute stability and certainty, opting instead for the irrefutable vageries of Koestenbaum's exquisitely tuned subjectivity.
Kenneth Goldsmith