Polytheogamy (Poet/Artist Collaboration) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981859100 ISBN 13: 9780981859101

Publisher: Saturnalia Books, 2009

Synopsis

Explore themes of sexuality, marriage, monogamy, and fidelity through a series of 64 lyric poems and 24 painting/sculptures Polytheogamy is the fifth installment in the Saturnalia Books Artist/Poet Collaboration series. Poet Timothy Liu and artist Greg Drasler explore themes of sexuality, marriage, monogamy, and fidelity through a series of 64 lyric poems and 24 painting/sculptures. Liu’s terse playful poems and Drasler’s sparse decorative spaces create a thrilling, sensual dance, playing off themes of “emptiness and fullness,” as renowned critic Charles Altieri explains in his introduction.

About this title

About the Author:

TIMOTHY LIU is the author of six books of poems, most recently Of Thee I Sing and For Dust Thou Art. An Associate Professor of English at William Paterson University and a member of the Core Faculty in Bennington College’s Graduate Writing Seminars, Liu lives in Manhattan.

Review:

“It is difficult not to think about Robert Creeley when reading Liu's sparse and unreletingly lucid lines. Even Liu's insistenly enthmatic logic echoes Creeley, albeit with an indulgence approaching but not embracing surrealism. But there are emotional timbres that even a gay Robert Creeley might not risk.... Liu's lucidity is ludic, or almost ludic because of his sense of the freedom evoked by his insistent refusal of lyric expansiveess. The negatives born of Liu's lucidity become strange sources of plenitude.” (Charles Altieri)

About this edition

• Publisher: Saturnalia Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0981859100
• ISBN 13: 9780981859101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100