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Timothy Liu Of Thee I Sing (Paperback) Contemporary Poetry Series (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Of Thee I Sing
- Publication Name
- Of Thee I Sing
- Title
- Of Thee I Sing
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780820326009
- ISBN
- 9780820326009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 31/03/2004
- Release Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 4 Oz
- Series
- Contemporary Poetry Series
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Original Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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In his fifth book of poems, Timothy Liu addresses a tripartite "Thee": the Divine, the Beloved, and the State. A precarious dance between the spiritual and the material ensues, the lyric poem confronting a consumer culture overrun by rampant lust and greed yet finding itself unable to wholly stand outside of what it critiques.
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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820326003
ISBN-13
9780820326009
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30445212
Product Key Features
Book Title
Of Thee I Sing
Original Language
English
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3562.I799o36 2004
Reviews
"[Liu's] poems provide plenty of reward . . . Liu's monostichs, full sentences as well as stark fragments, read like sound bites or news tickers at the bottom of a TV news screen. As such they seem prophetic."--North American Review, "The book's greatest strength is Liu's willingness to pick through American culture and his personal life while acknowledging that #145;Innocence means nothing / to us now.' This stark vision, compelling him to wonder #145;So what if poetry / burns itself to the ground,' has become as necessary as it is unsettling."-- Times Literary Supplement, "Timothy Liu writes out of an angry materialism, ill-fitting body, disappointment at every turn. He takes on his point of view wholeheartedly and compresses the consequences into phrases that echo and mimic each other, thereby increasing the sensation of claustrophobia and fever. Lots of humor erupts to keep the machine going. Is will the same as desire? It didn't used to be, but now it is. His poetry is fully present to the time we are in, and takes it on as a serious failure of intention."--Fanny Howe, author of The Wedding Dress, "The book's greatest strength is Liu's willingness to pick through American culture and his personal life while acknowledging that ‘Innocence means nothing / to us now.' This stark vision, compelling him to wonder ‘So what if poetry / burns itself to the ground,' has become as necessary as it is unsettling."-- Times Literary Supplement, "The book's greatest strength is Liu's willingness to pick through American culture and his personal life while acknowledging that 'Innocence means nothing / to us now.' This stark vision, compelling him to wonder 'So what if poetry / burns itself to the ground,' has become as necessary as it is unsettling."--Times Literary Supplement, The book's greatest strength is Liu's willingness to pick through American culture and his personal life while acknowledging that 'Innocence means nothing / to us now.' This stark vision, compelling him to wonder 'So what if poetry / burns itself to the ground,' has become as necessary as it is unsettling., "Timothy Liu writes out of an angry materialism, ill-fitting body, disappointment at every turn. He takes on his point of view wholeheartedly and compresses the consequences into phrases that echo and mimic each other, thereby increasing the sensation of claustrophobia and fever. Lots of humor erupts to keep the machine going. Is will the same as desire? It didn't used to be, but now it is. His poetry is fully present to the time we are in, and takes it on as a serious failure of intention."--Fanny Howe, author ofThe Wedding Dress, "[Liu's poems provide plenty of reward . . . Liu's monostichs, full sentences as well as stark fragments, read like sound bites or news tickers at the bottom of a TV news screen. As such they seem prophetic."-- North American Review, Timothy Liu writes out of an angry materialism, ill-fitting body, disappointment at every turn.... Lots of humor erupts to keep the machine going. Is will the same as desire? It didn't used to be, but now it is. Liu's poetry is fully present to the time we are in. - Fanny Howe, "Liu's transformations are startling and original, with lush language and series of fragmentary images to illustrate the tensions between the divine, the political and the physical."-- Sacramento News & Review, "Liu's pointed imagery is rendered in meticulously metered verse, often in elegantly enjambed couplets or triplets or single end-stopped lines, with frequent references to art, music, and biblical or Greek mythology. His work evokes Rilke's and Rodin's contemplations of a fragmented, yet enduringly luminous and transformative sculpture of Apollo."-- Multicultural Review, "With formidable invention, Tim Liu has made a book that is the 'flesh canoe' of liberty, American liberty. Family, sex, art, the fissures of liberty: 'America's / indigenous sublime.' By his eloquent, memorable, unappeased example, Liu enjoins us to do what Ginsberg did, put our queer shoulders to the wheel."--Frank Bidart, "Intense devotion to gay male desire collides with painful self-scrutiny, political protest and snapshots of far-flung America in Timothy Liu's Of Thee I Sing , forming a hyperreal nation of passion and distress 'sworn into a cult of moon-lit chinoiserie.'"-- Publishers Weekly, "[Liu's] poems provide plenty of reward . . . Liu's monostichs, full sentences as well as stark fragments, read like sound bites or news tickers at the bottom of a TV news screen. As such they seem prophetic."-- North American Review, "Liu's pointed imagery is rendered in meticulously metered verse, often in elegantly enjambed couplets or triplets or single end-stopped lines, with frequent references to art, music, and biblical or Greek mythology. His work evokes Rilke's and Rodin's contemplations of a fragmented, yet enduringly luminous and transformative sculpture of Apollo."--Multicultural Review, Liu's transformations are startling and original, with lush language and series of fragmentary images to illustrate the tensions between the divine, the political and the physical., Liu's pointed imagery is rendered in meticulously metered verse, often in elegantly enjambed couplets or triplets or single end-stopped lines, with frequent references to art, music, and biblical or Greek mythology. His work evokes Rilke's and Rodin's contemplations of a fragmented, yet enduringly luminous and transformative sculpture of Apollo., "Intense devotion to gay male desire collides with painful self-scrutiny, political protest and snapshots of far-flung America in Timothy Liu'sOf Thee I Sing, forming a hyperreal nation of passion and distress 'sworn into a cult of moon-lit chinoiserie.'"--Publishers Weekly, "Liu's transformations are startling and original, with lush language and series of fragmentary images to illustrate the tensions between the divine, the political and the physical."--Sacramento News & Review, "The book's greatest strength is Liu's willingness to pick through American culture and his personal life while acknowledging that 'Innocence means nothing / to us now.' This stark vision, compelling him to wonder 'So what if poetry / burns itself to the ground,' has become as necessary as it is unsettling."-- Times Literary Supplement
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-019204
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Series
The Contemporary Poetry Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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