United Artists: Poems (The James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series) - Softcover

Rosenstock, S. X.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570031312 ISBN 13: 9781570031311

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1996

Synopsis

A bold, new poet to be noted, identified, and saluted with a certain hilarity, S. X. Rosenstock advises her readers to "abandon all anxiety of allusion catching" and "let the poems work their cooing, buzzing, garrulous way into your innocent ears." Compared by Richard Howard to Florine Stettheimer in terms of her pallette and her impasto, Rosenstock delights in the preposterous, the unavailing, and the not-to-be-cloned as she moves among the monuments and the ruins of society in verses that beguile the ear, leap-frog grammatical barriers, and prod Wharton and Plath into patterns subservient to her whim. All the while this talented poet challenges patriarchal codes and reveals authentic sources of pleasure.

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From the Back Cover

A bold, new poet's vision of transformative, exuberant art, United Artists celebrates the primacy of imagination in the life well-lived. This beguiling first collection of poems by S. X. Rosenstock is an art lover's dream as well as a passionate, timely defense of the arts. With remarkable verve and grace, Rosenstock moves among the monuments and the ruins of society in comic, compassionate verses that challenge patriarchal codes and reveal authentic modes of pleasures. In fresh and provocative fashion, Rosenstock offers readers breathtakingly original encounters with the likes of Charles Baudelaire, Aubrey Beardsley, Fernando Botero, Francisco Goya, Lana Turner, Edith Wharton, John Woo, Madame Bovary's daughter, Petit Marcel's mother, and a host of others.

Review

Aubrey Beardsley On The Subject Of Hiw Own Willful Ignorance
Bumptious Unction: 1. Lusting, After Berryman
Bumptious Unction: 2. Recreation
Bumptious Unction: 3. The Lover Of The Queen Of The Fortunat
Close Your Eyes And Think Of England
Coole Jerk
Doyenne Du Comice
The Draw
Four Days
He Is Our Greatest Poet Of Blood
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 1
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 2
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 3
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 4
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 5
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 6
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 7
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 8
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 9 Studio Work
John Fowler Thinking Of Pinking Pure Silk Taffeta Triangles
Lazorra The Vixen
Le Realisme Fantastique De Berthe Bovary Lipshitz En Anglais
A Marcel Wave
A Marschallin (your Choice) Sightseeing Craterside At Volcan
My Robe Is Open
Of All Of Literature, Art, Philosophy, Politcs & Cuisine
Of Dicebas Quondam Solum Te Nosse...
On The Extensive, Publisher-executed Bowdlerization
Plath
Prestidigitation, 1856
Pretext: 1. The Real Dream
Pretext: 2. Cock Provenance
Tellurion
United Artists
What Happy Women Feel
The Women Of Jekyll & Hyde
Woo
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1570031312
• ISBN 13: 9781570031311
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64