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Ignatz (Stahlecker Selections)

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This book is stunning. So much power packed into such short, small-on-the-page poems. Ignatz and Krazy Kat are about love (loving in spite of everything) and this book adds a few more chapters to their (and love's) story. Youn is a fantastically precise writer and these poems are knockout.

Monica Youn is not an easy poet to unpack. Her terse, demanding poems can require repeated readings (ideally aloud) to fully grasp. That being said, the work is well rewarded. No analogy is superfluous, no allusion misplaced, and her cynical-yet-still-romantic grasp of human nature is like a pinch in the arm--playful and yet painful.

Gorgeous poetry. It's innovative and wry, and not only does Youn use the classic and amazing Krazy Kat comic strip as inspiration ('nuf said), she creates a world of love and desire that is worked out with such a thrilling mastery of the language. Loved it!

Beautiful, rich poetry with the slow-burning power of a Turner painting. Full of vivid and inventive poetic imagery that you can almost eat. Not a literal interpretation of Krazy Kat--think of Ignatz as starting point, a cypher-protagonist through whom Youn conveys her view of the world. A swift brick to the head that delivers the unlimited possibilities of language.