Either She Was - Softcover

Randolph, Karin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979241669 ISBN 13: 9780979241666

Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press, 2008

Synopsis

Poetry. In Karin Randolph's Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize-winning collection, David Shapiro finds "that it is always present tense as an empiricist casting a shadow and casting for shadows." The language of Randolph's prose poems is subtle, supple, and ever-inventive, and the speed and acuity of her perceptions will startle. "With the speed and daring of a champion Indy driver, Karin Randolph races around the bumps and curves of Language with courage and invention. Like such poets as Bernadette Meyer, Alice Notley and Anne Waldman, Randolph simply reinvents language as she bounces along, and it's up to us, her passenger/readers, to hold on and enjoy the ride"--Bill Kushner.

About this title

About the Author:

Karin Randolph is an ex-painter turned writer. She is the author of EITHER SHE WAS, which was selected by David Shapiro for the 2007 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist in the 2007 National Poetry Series.

Review:

I love this book of poems, because it reminds of the early perfections of an artist of pastels. The softest music was loved by John Cage, and this book could be one of the late homages to that genius of toy music. Like a wind chime, something that seems Romantic and kitsch becomes a language, though it seems random. It is always present tense as an empiricist casting a shadow and casting for shadows. We need politics and wildness today, and here we find a quiet resistance and no shame. --David Shapiro

With the speed and daring of a champion Indy driver, Karin Randolph races around the bumps and curves of Language with courage and invention. Like such poets as Bernadette Meyer, Alice Notley and Anne Waldman, Randolph simply re-invents language as she bounces along, and it's up to us, her passenger/readers, to hold on and enjoy the ride. --Bill Kushner

Randolph's prose poems archive our increasingly bizarre times: war, tourism, geometry, hauntings, far memory, spelunking, Greek mythology, Westphalian art, dogs, fashion and death. In one poem she encapsulates her own process: I don't mean to be coy or auxiliary but it tickles, clouds wobble, I get it down on colored paper. Read her and wonder. --Eva Salzman

About this edition

• Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0979241669
• ISBN 13: 9780979241666
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 86