Voice-Over - Paperback
by Elaine Equi (Author)
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.
Equi's succinct, witty, and innovative work has been widely published, appearing in the The New Yorker, Norton's Postmodern American Poetry, and four recent volumes of The Best American Poetry. A central figure in Chicago's poetics scene during the 70s and 80s, she now lives in New York where she teaches at City College, New School and NYU.
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