Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice

Women's Poetry: Poems and AdviceDaisy Fried's third book of poetry is a book of unsettling, unsettled Americans. Fried finds her Americans everywhere, watching Henry Kissinger leave the Louvre, trapped on a Tiber bridge by a crowd of neo fascist thugs, yearning outside a car detailing garage for a car lit underneath by neon lavender, riding the train with Princeton seniors who have been rejected by recession bound Wall Street, feeding stray cats drunk at midnight, bitching at her

Daisy Fried's third book of poetry is a book of unsettling, unsettled Americans. Fried finds her Americans everywhere, watching Henry Kissinger leave the Louvre, trapped on a Tiber bridge by a crowd of neo-fascist thugs, yearning outside a car detailing garage for a car lit underneath by neon lavender, riding the train with Princeton seniors who have been rejected by recession-bound Wall Street, feeding stray cats drunk at midnight, bitching at her mother in the labor room, shopping with wide-bodied hunters for deer-dismembering band saws in the world's largest supplier of seasonal camouflage, cursing her cell phone and husband at eighty-five miles an hour, hiding behind the mask of an advice column to proclaim Charles Bukowski "America's greatest poetess." There is nothing like this book, because there is nothing in it but America. No comfort, no consolation, no life-affirming pats on the back, no despair about God, no fear or acceptance of death, no irrational exuberance, no guilt or weariness, no misery even in the middle of personal and political crisis. Plenty of humor and plenty of seriousness. Joy. And a new kind of poetry: not nice, but rich and real.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 03/10/2013
ISBN: 9780822962380
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.30d

Review Citations: Booklist 03/15/2013 pg. 42
Library Journal 04/15/2013 pg. 84
New York Times Book Review 04/14/2013 pg. 13
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2013 pg. 34