Every Vanish Leaves Its Trace (Paperback)

~ Elizabeth Aoki (Author)

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Product Description

A chapbook of poems.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press; 1ST edition (2009)
• ISBN-10: 159924389X
• ISBN-13: 978-1599243894
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,678,109 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Every Vanish Leaves Its Trace, March 4, 2009

By	D. Sheffield (Leavenworth, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Here's a first collection by a poet whose work defies easy labels. These poems are smart and slippery, dizzying the head a little and making you chuckle as they wind-up a sock to the gut. And we'll have to say naked gut because these are bare poems--sheer feeling plunging the depths of physics and identity while searching for intimacy. They accomplish this through a loose, improvisational quality, not to mention a fine ear: "think of our world wound round with strings." I admire these risky poems, their sense of humor and sadness, and how they leave their particular trace: "we can laugh at ourselves, when there is time."

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Vanish Leaves an Impression, March 2, 2009

By	A. Braden - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The opening poem of Every Vanish Leaves Its Trace declares, "She sends meaning to the surface/in white bubbles, in pearls." Collectively the poems in this book comprise a necklace, no, a choker around the reader's throat, something finely-crafted but uncomfortable. When Aoki's frank admissions of identity, shame and appetite illustrate "the way people will sully themselves/without even trying," we wince to see ourselves in her candid, naked portraits. Some of these poems swagger; some of these poems sashay; all are scantily clad in a seething, unflinching sensuality as if the book were the orgy-child of Lynda Hull, Christina Rossetti, Sylvia Plath, Catullus and Federico Garcia Lorca.