Write About an Empty Birdcage

Write About an Empty Birdcage
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Publisher : SCB Distributors
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : 9781935904298
ISBN-13 : 1935904299
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Book Synopsis Write About an Empty Birdcage by : Elaina M. Elllis

Download or read book Write About an Empty Birdcage written by Elaina M. Elllis and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an ironic swish of the skirt, Elaina M. Ellis has delivered a sweetly strange first collection of poems. Reinventing femininity with each teasing line-break, Ellis pulls sexuality from form, and vulnerability from meter. By turns playful, blunt, and prayerful, Write About an Empty Birdcage documents the painful end of a romantic relationship; revels in the budding of new desire; and ultimately allows hope to climb quietly in through the back window. The poems which explicitly explore identity -- femaleness, Jewishness, queerness -- do so with a critique of power that blends humor, bloodied confession, and a reverence for tension. Ellis is a new poet to watch out for, neither belonging to the full-open swing of spoken word, nor to the inaccessibility of academia: the sonnet is a torch song, the prose poem is a fist. Here you find all the fleshy reveal of the truth, without the ease of nakedness. Write About an Empty Birdcage is a book of poetry that is worth the work of undressing. Elaina M. Ellis has a voice that cuts through wool. Rich in sound and sense, meaning and madness, she signals and signifies. Her imagery comes from a place of truth and her people sweat and breathe. Hers is a talent that can set the world on fire. -Jenny Factor, Antioch University Los Angeles


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