Brave Disguises (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Jacobik, Gray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822957884 ISBN 13: 9780822957881

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

Synopsis

The poet serves up a series of tasty elegies to Jackson Pollack, Larry Levis, avocados, and Johnny Depp, among others. Winner of the 2001 Associate Writing Programs' Award in Poetry. Original. (Poetry)

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From the Inside Flap:

"These poems feel solid, well-built, masterful. . . . Ideas and personal memories synthesize with the lush natural imagery of daily life. Jacobik’s love of detail recalls the best of Moore and Bishop, but with a sensuality that is fresh and contemporary"—Marilyn Chin

"At the center of these poems is a writer who is willing to open herself fully to the world’s and living’s beautiful strangeness and capricious painfulness. . . . Gray Jacobik’s poems always reach for, and often miraculously translate, the ‘scintillating possibilities’ within and beyond our reach."—Robert Cording

"Remarkable poems in which Jacobik paints her way, using Realism, Impressionism, and Surrealism, into such elations as would rip your heart out. These are poems of arriving and vanishing, mergings of classical concerns with dot-coms, blunt sexuality with wounded prayers. Debris and shabby truths are acknowledged and transformed into the Good. A lucid poetry, filled with information, expertly crafted, amazing work. Wallace Stevens walks with her."—Dick Allen

Mirroring the structure of a Pollock painting, elegizing Larry Levis and avocados, reflecting on Johnny Depp’s "terribly surreal" life, embarking upon a seventy-two-line meditation on the color blue, exposing a lover’s—or a mother’s—secrets, Gray Jacobik’s poems are mature, elegant, and crackling with energy.

About the Author:

Gray Jacobik received the Juniper Prize for The Double Task and the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize for The Surface of Last Scattering. Brave Disguises was selected by Marilyn Chin for the 2001 AWP Award Series in Poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0822957884
• ISBN 13: 9780822957881
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88