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Weight | 1.2 lbs |
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Format | eBook, Paperback |
The chromatic, linguistically playful, erotic conclusion to Wayne Koestenbaum’s acclaimed trance poem trilogy.
$9.99 – $19.95
Weight | 1.2 lbs |
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Format | eBook, Paperback |
Ultramarine distills four years of Koestenbaum’s trance notebooks (2015–2019) into a series of tightly-sewn collage-poems, filled with desiring bodies, cultural touchstones, and salty memories. Beyond Proust’s madeleine we head toward a “deli” version of utopia, crafted from hamantaschen, cupcake, and cucumber. Painting and its processes bring bright colors to the surface. Through interludes in Rome, Paris, and Cologne, Ultramarine reaches across memory, back to Europe, beyond the literal world into dream-habitats conjured through language’s occult structures.
Click here to read a conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum on the Nightboat blog!
If the voluminous allusions, usually divorced from context or analysis, are what a cerebral, queer, Jewish American culture vulture reared in the 1960s and ’70s would predictably fall for… they often bestow pleasures deeper than passing giggles, uncovering, as Koestenbaum does while reading Simone Weil, “the hurt, pocked portion / of being.”