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I think this poet is a genius. I remember reading her poems for the first time, years ago, and thinking they were ancient art, star-trajectories, letters from future aliens who came back to tell us everything. These poems show that genius making yet another revolution: erotic, scientific, loving, fierce—all corners of the universal ellipse finding a home in spite of paradox, here in this poetry. Nobody writes beauty, love, weirdness, mind, inner-and-outer cosmos like et.stark.
–Brenda Shaughnessy, author of The Octopus Museum
The separate pieces in “city of ladies” seem discontinuous, often jagged, yet these shards cohere to form one long poem that is wounded, sassy, and wise. Ranging over the natural and human world, et.stark‘s work courageously interrogates a landscape that is often inhospitable or unintelligible. Her questions help to give us answers.
—The most recent of Rachel Hadas’ many books is Poems for Camilla (2018), Love & Dread is due out in 2020. She is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, where she has taught for many years.
city of ladies – NWVS #152
by et.stark
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-281-8
2020
et.stark is a Michigan-born poet, bee-lover, and artist. She was the Book Arts Fellow at Press 43, in association with the Chapbook/Broadside Collaborative and ExpressNewark while attending Rutgers University MFA for creative writing. Most recently she published i (don’t) have a spare tire on my car, a chapbook with Kattywompus Press and some of her poems can be found in Prelude.
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