Rise in the Fall
Ana Bozicevic
(Author)
Description
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Ana Bo i ević is both a poet's poet and the people's poet. RISE IN THE FALL, her second full-length collection, is a revolutionary book and an ars poetica for the polis in which she excludes nothing. Navigating literary history, gender, sexuality, economics, family and friends, she is at ease employing both the universal political statement and the lyric "I." A Croatian emigre, Bo i ević approaches the English language with a playful objectivity, bouncing back and forth from the conversational to the grand: "This is the whitest shit / I've ever written" she notes in her half-myth "About Nietzsche." Her critique of our time and place is at once empathetic and crude, tender and grotesque. Lucky for us, "beauty [wins] in all its casual terror and pain.""This is more the work of an ancient waterfall than a human. One that told stories, broke dishes and wept. Got drunk rode a horse to the city in the moonlight shouting songs. No matter what the radiant, brilliantly unbalanced work of Ana Bo i ević always feels right. She's a bit of a colossus. It's stuck, it's in motion. It's absurdly enough." Eileen Myles"
Product Details
Price
$18.00
Publisher
Birds
Publish Date
April 30, 2013
Pages
80
Dimensions
5.9 X 0.4 X 8.9 inches | 0.39 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780982617786
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About the Author
Ana Bozičevic, born in Croatia in 1977, is a poet, translator, teacher, and occasional singer. She is the author of JOY OF MISSING OUT (Birds, LLC, 2017), STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009) and the Lambda Award-winning RISE IN THE FALL (Birds, LLC, 2013). She is the recipient of the 40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism award from the Feminist Press, and the PEN American Center/NYSCA grant for translating It Was Easy to Set the Snow on Fire by Zvonko Karanovic, from Phoneme Media. At the PhD Program in English at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York she studied New American poetics and alternative art schools and communities, and edited lectures by Diane di Prima for LOST & FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE. Ana has read, taught and performed at Art Basel, Bowery Poetry Club, Harvard, Naropa University, San Francisco State University Poetry Center, the Sorbonne, Third Man Records, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and The Watermill Center. She works and teaches poetry at BHQFU, New York's freest art school.
