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Triptychs Sandra Simonds

Triptychs By Sandra Simonds

Triptychs by Sandra Simonds


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Triptychs by Sandra Simonds

Sandra Simondss Triptychs is a brilliant intersection of poetic form and the passage of time.

Crafted initially in strips handwritten on rolls of receipt paper obtained at a dollar store, then assembled into three textual columns that sit side-by-side on the page, these triptychs are joined or disjoined in several waysthrough diction, through the special relation of words (evoking intimacy, touch or, in contrast, alienation), and through thematic similarities or dissimilarities. Each poem is wildly surprising, ranging from conversations between Baudelaire and Jayne Eyre to the enjoyment of macaroons.As a result, the poems energize the confines of this writing space as they invite readers to recall painterly constructions and news headlines, wherein each pillar is in conversation with another, sequentially and simultaneously. With the same lyric attention found in all of Simondss poetry, the poems here mark an innovative shift in poetics that is both polyvocal and singular.

Triptychs Reviews

Fevered and philosophical, Simondss fierce lyric rages against capitalism and patriarchy for stifling compassion and collective imagination" New Yorker

"Simonds paints a careful portrait of the struggle to embrace difficult realities in an age in which it would be irresponsible to ignore them, even if doing so offers no easy path forward. "starred review for ATOPIA, Publishers Weekly

About Sandra Simonds

Sandra Simondsis the author of Atopia(Wesleyan University Press, 2019), Orlando, (Wave Books, 2018),Further Problems with Pleasure, winner of the 2015 Akron Poetry Prize (University of Akron, 2017),Steal It Back(Saturnalia Books, 2015),The Sonnets(Bloof Books, 2014),Mother Was a Tragic Girl(Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012), andWarsaw Bikini(Bloof Books, 2009). Her poems have been included in theBest American Poetry2015 and 2014 and have appeared in theNew York Times,Poetry, theAmerican Poetry Review, theChicago Review,Granta,Boston Review, Ploughshares,Fence,Court Green, andLana Turner. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida and is anAssociate professor of English and Humanities at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS


I Gave Birth in Another Era

Bildungsroman

Reading The Bell Jar in Everglades National Park

Gong! Gong! Gong!

Now that Youre Dead, Im Observing Great Bodies of Water

With Joy with No Joy

Now Wait for Last Year

Lets Make the Water Turn Black

And the Days Shall be Filled with Music

The Poet Enters Through the Subjunctive Mood

Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

I Sang a Song with the Dead

March Pandemie

Planting a Loquat Tree During the Worst Week of the Pandemic

As in the Pyroclastic Volcano

The Future is Not What it Was

Your Eyes Resemble Mine

Poem with Three Lines by Gustaf Sobin

Dollar Tree Poiesis

Tick Tock Cryptic

Hold! Said the Hand Said the Money

To Take a Lover in the Intricately Woven Kaleidoscope

Dear Anselm,

Pastoral in the Minor Key

The Only Cloud in the Sky to Impress me with a Demoniacal Grandeur

The Password is Hex Key 526

The Flammagenitus Strophes

Skate World Waveform

It was Raining in the French Concession

Double Happiness or Modernity Means Contingency

Trashland Political Economy

An Equanimous Defense of the Exclamation Point

New Years Requiem

Makeup Pollen Ointment

I Bought You a Bonsai Cypress Tree on the Way to the Shore

On Avondale and Riverside

Additional information

NPB9781950268696
9781950268696
1950268691
Triptychs by Sandra Simonds
New
Hardback
Wave Books
2023-01-12
96
N/A
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