| Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background Contributor(s): Koestenbaum, Wayne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933527609 ISBN-13: 9781933527604 Publisher: Turtle Point Press OUR PRICE: $9.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2011930738 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 7.2" (0.39 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fast, obsessive, jumpy, tender, and joyful, the poems in Wayne Koestenbaum's Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background take his signature themes--stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation--and cut them into serial strips: tidbits that employ techniques of pointillism, mosaic, grid, aphorism, litany, and philosophical investigation. The luminaries in this memory-theater range from Yvonne de Carlo to Hannah Arendt. A trip to Venice and an invocation to an eschatological ice-cream man are the two longest trysts in a book exquisitely composed of bits that betoken a new brutalism in a writer known for svelte cadences and artful dodges. |