Dream Apartment by Lisa Olstein (English) Paperback Book

Description: Dream Apartment by Lisa Olstein "A collection of poems by Lisa Olstein"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Dream Apartment, Lisa Olstein builds a world of night-rabbits, bodiless shadows, and networks of wind where ode and elegy meet.Devoted equally to the long arc and the sharp fragment, Lisa Olsteins fifth collection maps the lucid ache at the center of night where "darkness stands in/for light," certain heartbreaks never end, and love dovetails with losing. Immersed in ode as much as elegy, Dream Apartment employs a dynamic range of forms. Prayer-like spells cascade down the page with precision and abandon. Arrow-shot elegies explore the shock of suicide and find echoes in other kinds of grief-individual and communal, animal and ecological, sudden and creeping.Agile narratives mirror the dazzling associative movement of unselfconscious thought, the dreaming mind, "bodiless memory." Whether watching a stranger carry his dead dog out of a vets exam room or offering bouquets of peonies to night-foraging rabbits, Dream Apartment is propelled by the way poems, like dreams, unfold new dimensions of time and space. Casting their lines toward wish and repair, recognition and reckoning, these poems reveal how any meditation on loss is an exploration of love, promising that in "dreaming, something wakes." Author Biography Lisa Olstein is the author of five poetry collections-Radio Crackling, Radio Gone,Lost Alphabet, Little Stranger,Late Empire, and Dream Apartment. Her non-fiction includes Pain Studies, a book-length lyric essay, and Climatis also the lyricist for the rock band Cold Satellite and serves as an associate editor at Tupelo Quarterly. Review Praise for Dream Apartment"Despite the title, the poems in Pushcart Prize and Hayden Carruth Award winner Olsteins latest collection are not dreamlike so much as they resemble the process of dreaming. They observe the way one part of a dream segues to another and the way a dream applies to and differs from daily life. . . . [They] work their magic through just such a sequential movement."—Diane Scharper, Library Journal"Elegiac for both self and species, Dream Apartment names, as a title, the overlapping and inter-animation of interior and exterior structures. Through brilliant enjambment, agile movement, textural acoustics, and rhythmic mastery, Olstein delivers a skilled yet deeply felt portrait of existential and ecological extinction, making the book an important marker of a shift from weird to worldly, from ludic to lucid."—Preposition Mag"A formal restlessness echoes the particularities of this mind at work. Olstein moves between haibuns, short-lined enjambments, and concrete poems shaped like arrows. Sonic riffs propel the collection: vessel morphs into vassal, plum meets plumb as sound shapes the minds momentum. Wit, word play, and tonal shifts abound."—Rebecca Morgan Frank, Harriet Books, Poetry Foundation"There is such an interesting shift in tone, rhythm, and effect through her evolution of lyric structures, one that allows for the larger shape of the collection to emerge out of shared purpose amid myriad structures. . . . Each shape and patter attends uniquely to the music of each line, offering a precise and dreamy effect through her examinations, and even negotiations, on how one lives or might live in the world."—Rob McLennans Blog"Into this surfeit of mind-numbing meaning comes Olstein, clear eyed, to restore the dignity of the quarrel with oneself. Olstein is a nimble post-modernist, afraid neither of the couplet nor the broken line on a scattershot page."—Johnny Payne, Merion WestPraise for Lisa Olstein"An accomplished poet, she often uses language beautifully and inventively."—New York Times Book Review"Is she just smarter about syntax, more articulate about human drama, more imaginative about eeriness, more insightful about sadness, more capable of turning a novel phrase, more engaging a storyteller than nearly all the rest of her peers? Well, yes."—The Huffington Post"Tenderness, then, is a form of resistance. It allows Olstein to create intimacy on the page not only among those who inhabit these poems, but also in those of us reading them. . . . With this book, Olstein has declared herself a poet worth watching"—The Rumpus"Brilliant and provocative . . . Olstein realizes that the rules of language must be questioned, interrogated, and revised from within."—The Literary Review"Taut, sonically driven and darkly funny."—The Volta"This poet brings a sparkling consciousness to the page."—Library Journal Details ISBN155659674X Author Lisa Olstein Format Paperback Pages 112 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 155659674X ISBN-13 9781556596742 Publication Date 2023-10-26 UK Release Date 2023-10-26 Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-10-26 US Release Date 2023-10-26 Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Audience General AU Release Date 2024-01-17 DEWEY 811.6 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:151677929;

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