Sky Lounge
Mark Bibbins finds damaged glamour at the fringes of respectability in this exceptional debut collection
I was bornwith capable eyes, a moveable heart
and time to spare.--from "Euphorium" In his restless and unpredictable debut, Mark Bibbins offers a virtuosic poetry. Lovers struggle to connect; groupies, hustlers, and corporate drones covet better--or at least different--lives; locations fluctuate, without forewarning, from bars to beaches to city streets. With beguiling tonal and formal variety, these poems question the ordinary and unwitting acceptance of the status quo as they hover where "error arranges itself." As indebted to Stereolab and Siouxsie Sioux as to any poetic lineage, Sky Lounge introduces an imagination committed to making irreverence, sensuality, and elegy into a provocative new music.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1555973809
ISBN13:9781555973803
Release Date:May 2003
Publisher:Graywolf Press
Length:72 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.4" x 8.8"
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2 ratings
He's good
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
It's been a while since I picked this one up, but I've enjoyed his poetry since Take Three. His poems stick with you like swallowed chewing gum. Years will pass without remembering you read them; then one random day, you'll be vacuuming dog hair off your brand new linen sofa and you'll have this sudden, irresistible urge to point the hose out the window and suck up the stars.
Written with honesty and perception
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Sky Lounge is a collection of free-verse poetry written with honesty and perception by Mark Bibbins. Variety and flux from day to day and lifetime to lifetime are central themes in this impressive and memorable collection. Mesh: If ever an enterprise/were doomed--/What was told to me:/gingerbread (poisoned),//strangers crushing/bric-a-brac,/I needn't have died/as many times.//Also herd of hazard/and love, the sky/over there fills with them./One to here knows//when, another to rue/the whirl. I endure,/merely, a forger/in the red bean.
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