Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star

Poetry

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A playful, intoxicating debut by a young poet dedicated to expanding the boundaries of lyric poetry

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Weight .35 lbs
Dimensions 6 × .2 × 8 in

Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star, Gracie Leavitt’s first full-length collection, draws on rich lyric history, the love poem as prism, in an effort to create a postmodern pastoral. Leavitt’s lines—a baroque tracery, sometimes dark, teasing prose, and pronoun-packed—and unstoppable syntax define her unique poetic vision. This idyll, with its bucolic scenery, its domestic scale, its erotic charge, charges forward into an ecofeminist future.

Praise

Her heart has a huge vocabulary. The erotic frictions and syntactic torsions that make her work so exciting on the surface never linger in the abstract but always come close, close, inviting us into the play of feeling and, above all, the play of play.

-ROBERT KELLY
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ISBN: 978-1-937658-16-8
paperback, 104 pages, 6 x 8 in
Publication Date: 2014
Reviews

Gracie Leavitt’s debut collection, Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star, uses R. Buckminster Fuller’s 1969 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth as its intertext, passages from his book making up pages of Leavitt’s own…

Leavitt’s poems attune the reader to the frame of their viewership. Her “long distance thinking” informs a poetics simultaneously devoted to engaging and subverting meaning. The first and third sections of the book, entitled “Gap Gardening” I and II respectively, employ Rosmarie Waldrop’s concept of “gap gardening,” a mode of writing that cultivates discontinuity by bringing the gap offered by the margins of a poem into its body.

 

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Gracie Leavitt is the author of Livingry and Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star as well as the chapbooks Gap Gardening (These Signals) and Catena (DoubleCross Press). Previous theatrical projects include …

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