Matinees

by Ange Mlinko

Collects poems that record states of mind rather than autobiographical moments

Genres: Poetry

55 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 1999

About the author

Ange Mlinko is an American poet. The author of four books of poetry, she is currently an associate professor in the English department at the University of Florida. She was the poetry editor for The Nation from 2013-2016.

Reviews

[‎Seth Studer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ange Mlinko wins when she describes a remora head as "an attachment patterned like a brake pad," or when she describes how you die "tissue-thin deaths" walking through the Boston windchill in winter.

[Brendan]

Rating: 3 1/2

A lot of run-on sentences and odd sentence structure. Confusing, weird, difficult to understand. I kind of feel like I should like it more than I do.

Favorites:
"Christina Dreaming in the Next Room"
"Editorial for Compound Eye #2"

Who'd you be without me
cutting a hole in a book
to change its interior meanings but also
to be looking at you as I read?
- "Salute"

[Farren · Rating 2 out of 5]

TEDIOUS.