Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background
Language: English
Published by Turtle Point Press, New York, 2012
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8vo, 126 pp.
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- Title
- Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background
- Author
- Koestenbaum, Wayne
- Publisher
- Turtle Point Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Fine copy
- Binding
- softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1933527609
- ISBN 13
- 9781933527604
- Edition
- 1st.
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- Poetry
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.
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Review
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
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
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