Puppet Wardrobe

Daniel Tiffany

Description

Puppet Wardrobe is a pop-up book, surprise is in its element. In search of the “dateless lively heat” that Shakespeare sourced to Cupid, Daniel Tiffany finds “the infamous promiscuity of things” in broad display. As watchword, you have the poet’s “slang for the pink redoubt,” the chummy vulgarity beneath prosody’s underthings: say hello to the New Flesh.

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 27 septembre 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781932559958
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

intelligence here, radiant with Ireworks and emergency Lares. A brilliant read.

ideas, the poems we pilfer are Iltered or partial or near full disintegration. But

like Frankenstein, by the chemist? ProLigate with form and meter, these poems

species in the wardrobe that is the book’s Ierce, uniIed voice. This is a tremen

“dateless lively heat” that Shakespeare sourced to Cupid, Daniel Tiffany Inds “the infamous promiscuity of things” in broad display. As watchword, you have

where between Middle English and Extreme English. Bawdy scenes glow Iercely in bonIre light, while neologism-sparks leap out, singeing and singing, with a

hoped-for future world. All we can do is try and catch up and

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Books by Daniel Tiffany

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Daniel Tiffany

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tiffany, Daniel Newton  Puppet wardrobe / Daniel Tiffany.  p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)  ISBN 1-932559-93-0 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 1-932559- 94-9 (ardcover : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 1-932559-95-7 (adobe ebook)  I. Title.  PS3570.I335P87 2006  811’.6--dc22  2006029643

Printed on acid-free paper. Cover design by Amy Dakos Cover illustration fromTe Visible Compendium, a filmby Lawrence Jordan. Used by permission.

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For my fater

(1925–1988)

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Acknowledgments

Arcade Model Master’s Gone Away The Names of the Dice Nothing But Bonîres Sappho’s Tantrum Explosively Cheap Ham Hound Crave Werewolf in Selvage Nightspot Seaside Shiny Folk Cataract Honey in the Lion’s Ear Horn Lake Road Darkness Counts Skin-Skin-Skin Come and See Mr. So and So Spy & Beauty Treatment

Hard Nicknamey System Heist RedVeloce Stolen Furs Off Cave of the Golden Calf Milk Mustache Hadn’t a Had My Pistol Flash, etc Sugar Gear Downtown Science Virtuoso Lux Aeterna Captain, Captain Tract Containing the Sudden Death of the Liar Quarry

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