Sky Lounge

Mark Bibbins finds damaged glamour at the fringes of respectability in this exceptional debut collection

I was born
with capable eyes,

a moveable heart
and time to spare.--from "Euphorium"

In his restless and unpredictable debut, Mark Bibbins offers a virtuosic poetry. Lovers struggle to connect; groupies, hustlers, and corporate drones covet better--or at least different--lives; locations fluctuate, without forewarning, from bars to beaches to city streets. With beguiling tonal and formal variety, these poems question the ordinary and unwitting acceptance of the status quo as they hover where "error arranges itself." As indebted to Stereolab and Siouxsie Sioux as to any poetic lineage, Sky Lounge introduces an imagination committed to making irreverence, sensuality, and elegy into a provocative new music.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 05/01/2003
ISBN: 9781555973803
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.36w x 0.29d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/21/2003 pg. 58
Lambda Book Report 03/01/2004 pg. 13