Bling & Fringe (The L.A. Poems) - Softcover

Bendall, Molly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982354215 ISBN 13: 9780982354216

Publisher: What Books Press, 2009

Synopsis

Poetry. "In these intensely female, lively luscious songs it's Colette meets Beyonce meets Lil Mama meets Cixous and in comes Kristeva meets Molly Bendall meets Gail Wronsky, and therefore streams continual surprise--eros kisses big bad boogie man theory and 'word as noose' slang jumpstarts high-flown lingo and it's all so playful and yet deadly serious--how these poems issue from one urgent, collective, Medusa-like mouth, one it's high time is heard"--Gillian Conoley.

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From the Back Cover:

In these intensely female, lively luscious songs it's Colette meets Beyonce meets Lil Mama meets Cixous and in comes Kristeva meets Molly Bendall meets Gail Wronsky, and therefore streams continual surprise--eros kisses big bad boogie man theory and "word as noose" slang jumpstarts high-flown lingo and it's all so playful and yet deadly serious--how these poems issue from one urgent, collective, Medusa-like mouth, one it's high time is heard.
--Gillian Conoley

Dressed up, sequined sequence of syllables and words working the poem's runway, Molly Bendall and Gail Wronsky's poems give us alluring I-candy, word-assemblages beckoning for some time with our eyes and ears. Poems dressed up to a-muse. Parts and pieces on display, accessorizing and exposing the poem's attractions. Name-dropping; mixing and matching; reading is touching.
--Hank Lazer

About the Author:

Molly Bendall is the author of four books of poetry: After Estrangement, Dark Summer, Ariadne's Island, and UNDER THE QUICK. She has co-authored with Gail Wronsky two books of cowgirl poetry. Bendall teaches at the University of Southern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: What Books Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0982354215
• ISBN 13: 9780982354216
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52
• Editor: Wronsky Gail