Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry) - Softcover

Kicknosway, Faye

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081956656X ISBN 13: 9780819566560

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Poet and visual artist Faye Kicknosway presents both new works and twenty-five years of celebrated verse and illustration in her latest volume, Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems. The poems mine common speech, folklore, film, the grotesque and the ordinary with unapologetic candor and ferocious intimacy. They are a testament to the power of contemporary monologue, filled with surprising inversions and unique takes on the risk of opening the front door. Cutting musically to the quick of a situation, each is filled with surprise, horror and, as they add up, moral consequence.

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Review:

"Turning the body inside out with both mental and physical discourse/intercourse, Faye Kicknosway's poems lead us first through desire and titillation then straight into despair before the reader finds any salvation. The journey will ravish you." -- William L. Fox, author of Reading Sand

About the Author:

FAYE KICKNOSWAY, Morgan Blair to her students at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, has authored eleven books of poetry. One of them, Who Shall Know Them?, inspired by Walker Evans's photographs, was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. Faye Kicknosway was also a contributor to the ground-breaking feminist anthology No More Masks! (1973).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 081956656X
• ISBN 13: 9780819566560
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216