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"Appetite, heat, color and speed: Matines has everything you might want from a young poet (or an old poet too, for that matter). They are full of joy and utterly fearless." --August Kleinzahler
Review:
"Mlinko makes you love the language she loves. Here is poetry formed by the seeing eye, and Mlinko's vision is hip and predatory - she catches words then plays with them. This is poetry you want to read by a new poet whose strange, delightful mind yanks poetry away from expectations and carries it into a fresher, more kick-ass realm." --Connie Deanovich
(columbus Day) Charades
Afterhours
Anniversary
Aqua Neon
Bigtime Printing
Brief
Cafe Algiers
Christina Dreaming In The Next Room
City Story
The Difference Between A Ghost And An Angel
Editorial For Compound Eye #2
Face Painted On A Brick
Falling Three Stories
Free Refill
Happiness In Harness
Immediate Orgy And Audit
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Just Dump Me On The Palace Steps
Lush Life
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N + 495
'no One Shone There'
The North End
Ode To Architecture: Daedelus & Icarus
On The Fly
Paranormal Writing
Patricia & Chris's Annual Summer Solstice Party
The Phenomenon Of Emigrating Brides
Poem Bejeweled With Proper Nouns
Poor Man's Lily For Bill
Pop Song
Salute
Spokesperson For A Lowly Ambition
Stacking Values
There Is A Fabulous House
These Representations Of Peacetime
The Traveller
Valuable Loathing Immortally Superstitious
Wet Book
World News Tonight
World News Tonight: 2. Providence/lambskinned
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
A Best Book of 1999 -- Publishers Weekly
Boston, Providence, New York, Mlinko is a city poet for whom the city is fresh and light-filled, as it is when we leave a matine, pleasurably guilty to have spent the afternoon in a movie. Her work has two qualities that cannot be faked: a sense of humor and life itself. -- POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER, June 1999
Mlinko's first collection of poems, Matines, is that rare monster, a book that treats everyday events like operas-- full of passion, boastfulness and crashing music. "I am in Heaven/ never more so than when I take off my ring/ to make love to my husband like Heloise,/ which she didn't have to," Mlinko writes in "Poem Bejeweled with Proper Nouns." She's a gifted worker in simile: the instrument panel of the little propeller plane in "The Traveler" is covered with "gauges exposed in dyed light like a/ headbanger's catscan!" Deftly chosen verbs ("shadows differ on the wing") and lush Shakespearean chiaroscuro multiply the emotional effects, which are to Mlinko's poetry as special effects are to Star Wars. -- Time Out New York, April 1999
Reading the poems in Ange Mlinko's debut collection Matines, one is reminded of something Robert Frost once said: "Inspiration is mostly hostility towards something." Mlinko demonstrates the kind of predatory vision Frost refers to; full of appetite and aggression, her poems take the repeated stance of circling, stalking, and finally closing in on their subjects. Mlinko works like a hunter with a seeing eye. There's a quiet ferocity in Mlinko's easy fluency of detail, and although there are a few weak poems in the collection, the best work in Matines has all the force and play of a good Frank O'Hara poem. With a kind of instinctual rigor that is both admirable and rare in a young poet, Mlinko manages to yank poetry from expectation and carry it forward with daring and stealth. -- Rain Taxi, June 1999
Afterhours
Anniversary
Aqua Neon
Bigtime Printing
Brief
Cafe Algiers
Christina Dreaming In The Next Room
City Story
The Difference Between A Ghost And An Angel
Editorial For Compound Eye #2
Face Painted On A Brick
Falling Three Stories
Free Refill
Happiness In Harness
Immediate Orgy And Audit
Information
Just Dump Me On The Palace Steps
Lush Life
Matinee
N + 495
'no One Shone There'
The North End
Ode To Architecture: Daedelus & Icarus
On The Fly
Paranormal Writing
Patricia & Chris's Annual Summer Solstice Party
The Phenomenon Of Emigrating Brides
Poem Bejeweled With Proper Nouns
Poor Man's Lily For Bill
Pop Song
Salute
Spokesperson For A Lowly Ambition
Stacking Values
There Is A Fabulous House
These Representations Of Peacetime
The Traveller
Valuable Loathing Immortally Superstitious
Wet Book
World News Tonight
World News Tonight: 2. Providence/lambskinned
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
A Best Book of 1999 -- Publishers Weekly
Boston, Providence, New York, Mlinko is a city poet for whom the city is fresh and light-filled, as it is when we leave a matine, pleasurably guilty to have spent the afternoon in a movie. Her work has two qualities that cannot be faked: a sense of humor and life itself. -- POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER, June 1999
Mlinko's first collection of poems, Matines, is that rare monster, a book that treats everyday events like operas-- full of passion, boastfulness and crashing music. "I am in Heaven/ never more so than when I take off my ring/ to make love to my husband like Heloise,/ which she didn't have to," Mlinko writes in "Poem Bejeweled with Proper Nouns." She's a gifted worker in simile: the instrument panel of the little propeller plane in "The Traveler" is covered with "gauges exposed in dyed light like a/ headbanger's catscan!" Deftly chosen verbs ("shadows differ on the wing") and lush Shakespearean chiaroscuro multiply the emotional effects, which are to Mlinko's poetry as special effects are to Star Wars. -- Time Out New York, April 1999
Reading the poems in Ange Mlinko's debut collection Matines, one is reminded of something Robert Frost once said: "Inspiration is mostly hostility towards something." Mlinko demonstrates the kind of predatory vision Frost refers to; full of appetite and aggression, her poems take the repeated stance of circling, stalking, and finally closing in on their subjects. Mlinko works like a hunter with a seeing eye. There's a quiet ferocity in Mlinko's easy fluency of detail, and although there are a few weak poems in the collection, the best work in Matines has all the force and play of a good Frank O'Hara poem. With a kind of instinctual rigor that is both admirable and rare in a young poet, Mlinko manages to yank poetry from expectation and carry it forward with daring and stealth. -- Rain Taxi, June 1999
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- PublisherZoland Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1581950055
- ISBN 13 9781581950052
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages55
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