Zoop - Softcover
Poetry. ZOOP collects 40 of Szamotowitz's innovative prose-poems that range in subject from the pastoral scenes of Charity to the urban landscape of Styrofoam and Duct Tape Glider Kill. Prominent in the New York poetry scene, Szamatowicz's work has appeared in Skanky Possum, The Germ, The Hartford Advocate, Canada Review, as well as in many other publications. . "In paragraphs that unspool calmly and intently, Szamatowicz's regular, matter-of-fact prose plays straight man (or woman) to the speaker's cognitive associations...." Publishers Weekly. This striking book comes from Owl Press, known for publishing Edmund Berrigan's popular DISARMING MATTER (also available from SPD).
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About the Author:
Carol Szamatowicz is a teacher at The City And Country School in New York City. She is the author of one privious collection called CATS AND BIRDS. She has published poems in, THE HARTFORD ADVOCATE, CANADA REVIEW, THE WORLD, THE GERM, THE HAT, LINGO, SKANKY POSSUM, and elsewhere.
From Publishers Weekly:
In paragraphs that unspool calmly and intently, Szamatowicz's regular, matter-of-fact prose plays straight man (or woman) to the speaker's cognitive and emotional associations: "By crossing the short sea and looking back, I see you waiting for the spring in your coat." Grammar, too, can change direction at any moment, and anacolutha abound: "All acts are specific, I go and the scenes come with, how they feel, smell, sing the wood's underbelly up, listening to the fanning wheels long and short timers loosen." Szamatowicz combines deadpan humor with an oblique tenderness; in "Dear Hypochondriac," the letter-writer makes unrelated observations that a person convinced of illness might find as helpful as anything else--i.e., not at all, but kind of, nonetheless.
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- PublisherOwl Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0966943023
- ISBN 13 9780966943023
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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