Puddles of an Open
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (834 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609642368 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 36 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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V said a must-read for those interested in contemporary poetry. Excellent read. The poems in this book are profound and original in both content and format. Melin's thoughts and experiences come through in the broken language of her poetry. A must-read for those interested in contemporary poetry.
. Her writing has been published in NAME, Yellowfield, and Stolen Island, and has won awards through the Academy of American Poets and the Albert Cook, Mac Hammond, and John Logan Prize for Poetry. in English at the University of Maine. Poet, editor, and intersectional feminist Paige Melin is currently pursuing her M.A. Along with her partner, Vincent, she co-founded and edits steel bellow: a purely Buffal
about to be said and already retracted, Melin’s suspended story remains untold: as it resists coherence as representation of events, it captures instead a self-fragmenting fugitiveness in articulation. We as readers are invited into the heroine’s psyche, made to experience the beauty and terror of thought itself. Charles Bernstein once argued that in a well-crafted poem, form acts as an extension of content, particularly as the subject of the work is enacted through the behavior of the language itself. —Michael Basinski cant enter or move out of away from Puddles of an Open occurs in a suggestively uncomfortable space between entrance and exit that is never fully within. Puddles of an Open is a stunning debut, as innovative in its technique as it is in its philosophical assertions. In Melin’s ruptured poetry, compliant poetry becomes poetry of applied use, and with hope, a poetic tool for reassignment. raising awareness around speaking and narration as decision – precisely by refusing this decision – Melin plays on the slipperiness of memory and the language of telling eyes ice while lingering on aporias of consent, admission, desire, and feeling besetting the underlying matters spoken of. Paige Meli
. in English at the University of Maine. About the Author Poet, editor, and intersectional feminist Paige Melin is currently pursuing her M.A. Her writing has been published in NAME, Yellowfield, and Stolen Island, and has won awards through the Academy of American Poets and the Albert Cook, Mac Hammond, and John Logan Prize for Poetry. Along with her partner, Vincent, she co-founded and edits steel bellow: a purely Buffalo literary magazine, and she is currently the Editorial Assistant for Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics