United Artists (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series) [Paperback]

S. X. Rosenstock (Author)

Book Description

Series: James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series | Publication Date: April 1, 1996

A bold, new poet to be noted, identified, and saluted with a certain hilarity, S. X. Rosenstock advises her readers to "abandon all anxiety of allusion catching" and "let the poems work their cooing, buzzing, garrulous way into your innocent ears." Compared by Richard Howard to Florine Stettheimer in terms of her pallette and her impasto, Rosenstock delights in the preposterous, the unavailing, and the not-to-be-cloned as she moves among the monuments and the ruins of society in verses that beguile the ear, leap-frog grammatical barriers, and prod Wharton and Plath into patterns subservient to her whim. All the while this talented poet challenges patriarchal codes and reveals authentic sources of pleasure.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Aubrey Beardsley On The Subject Of Hiw Own Willful Ignorance
Bumptious Unction: 1. Lusting, After Berryman
Bumptious Unction: 2. Recreation
Bumptious Unction: 3. The Lover Of The Queen Of The Fortunat
Close Your Eyes And Think Of England
Coole Jerk
Doyenne Du Comice
The Draw
Four Days
He Is Our Greatest Poet Of Blood
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 1
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 2
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 3
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 4
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 5
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 6
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 7
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 8
The Imaginary Portraits Of Simonetta Vespucci: 9 Studio Work
John Fowler Thinking Of Pinking Pure Silk Taffeta Triangles
Lazorra The Vixen
Le Realisme Fantastique De Berthe Bovary Lipshitz En Anglais
A Marcel Wave
A Marschallin (your Choice) Sightseeing Craterside At Volcan
My Robe Is Open
Of All Of Literature, Art, Philosophy, Politcs & Cuisine
Of Dicebas Quondam Solum Te Nosse...
On The Extensive, Publisher-executed Bowdlerization
Plath
Prestidigitation, 1856
Pretext: 1. The Real Dream
Pretext: 2. Cock Provenance
Tellurion
United Artists
What Happy Women Feel
The Women Of Jekyll & Hyde
Woo
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 82 pages
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press (April 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570031312
• ISBN-13: 978-1570031311
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,820,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

S.X. Rosenstock is the author of United Artists: Poems. Her essay, "Love in the Time of College Angst" appeared in Autumn of 2010 as part of a collection from St. Martin's Press, entitled I'm Going to College, Not You. Her writing about music, including Daft Punk, The Dead Weather, The Tallest Man on Earth, CocoRosie, Brandon Flowers' solo tour, and more, appears regularly on The Huffington Post. She is a contributor to the book of essays, By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry. Her poetry had its debut in The Paris Review and was selected for inclusion in The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love . . . : The Best of Fifty Years of The Paris Review. Rosenstock is a member of PEN American Center. Her website is devoted to music/poetry/meaning . . . served in a snark-free zone. Visit S.X. Rosenstock at www.littlebiggerroom.com.