I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast - Softcover

Studdard, Melissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988944766 ISBN 13: 9780988944763

Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc., 2015

Synopsis

Melissa Studdard's high-flying, bold poetic language expresses an erotic appetite for the world: "this desire to butter and eat the stars," as she says, in words characteristically large yet domestic, ambitious yet chuckling at their own nerve. This poet's ardent, winning ebullience echoes that of God, a recurring character here, who finds us Her children, splotchy, bawling and imperfect though we are, "flawless in her omniscient eyes." -Robert Pinsky In so many ways the poems in this book read like paintings, touching and absorbing the light of the known world while fingering the soul until it lifts, trembling. Gates splayed, bodies read as books, and hearts born of mouths, Studdard's study, which is a creation unto itself, would have no doubt pleased Neruda's taste for the alchemic impurity of poetry, which is, as we know, poetry that is not only most pure of heart, but beautifully generous in vision and feeling. -Cate Marvin

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Review:

"This collection by Melissa Studdard amazes with its rich content and the striking imagery." -Tiferet Journal 

"I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast is the result of a unique poetic vision wedded to a mastery of the poet's art." -Quill & Parchment
 
"If God is a woman as Studdard posits in her poetry, there is no doubt in my mind that I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast is one of Her many great and ordained creations."--Knot Magazine
 
"I Ate The Cosmos for Breakfast is a beauty from cover to final page!" -Reader's Favorite

About this edition

• Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0988944766
• ISBN 13: 9780988944763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90