I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET THROUGH TO EVERYONE - Softcover

Anna Moschovakis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885586493 ISBN 13: 9781885586490

Publisher: TURTLE POINT PRESS, 2006

Synopsis

An auspicious debut....Stripped of artifice and the mere effects of formal pyrotechnics, these poems move by ear and intellect, pushing and pulling at the real with precision and mystery."""" - Ammiel Alcalay """"A trailblazing work."""" - Lewis Warsh

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I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

Synopsis:

The shadows on the wall - resurrecting poetry in Plato's cave. This work is an auspicious debut from a trailblazing new poet. Flickering philosophies and ancient lights meet the grey bustle of the globalised world in Anna Moschovakis' astonishing debut. The glut of modern diseases - psychological, endemic, born in and of the thing that they infect - stalk city streets figured as old gods: appearing in brief sideways glances, captured smokelike in the frame of some glass office building, vanishing between wailing buses on which they scrawl their name. It is a single legend - "Feast Day" - in the windshield of a car halts spectres in their tracks. Moschovakis populates her cities with mythic shades. Faceless and blunt, they become ideals - forms flickering on the wall of the glass-and-concrete cave, the office-bank-and-tenement halls shining in streets flushed with taxis, prescribed rotes of love and contact performed in everyman parties and formless apartments. This is poetry fit to align itself with Allen Ginsberg. Something new from something old - and in the carefully constructed universality of her tone, something for everyone.

About this edition

• Publisher: TURTLE POINT PRESS
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1885586493
• ISBN 13: 9781885586490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96