Voice-Over

Poetry. Nothing needs us / but we need / a lot of reassurance / before we can reassure / those things we thought / we needed that they exist too. (from Hinge) Wayne Koestenbaum writes of these spare lyrics: Clean, clear, cool, quick: Elaine Equi's beautiful epigrams of refusal, entirely contemporary, exist at a blissful remove from the fatiguing. I learn a lot from them about how to live and write. I relish her mystic attentiveness to silence, and to the daily uncanny. She is at once an entertainer and an oracle: a winning combination. Evoking muses both literary-Wang Wei, Lorine Niedecker, Bartlett's Quotations, Frank O'Hara-and pop cultural-Armani, karaoke, shopping, porn-Equi writes poems that refuse to be sentimental while never refusing sentiment. Elaine Equi lives in New York City where she teaches at The New School and The Writer's Voice.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 02/01/1998
ISBN: 9781566890786
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.86w x 0.32d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/30/1998 pg. 67
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/1998 pg. 1761
Library Journal 02/01/1999 pg. 93