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What Began Us
Poetry. Melissa Buzzeo's WHAT BEGAN US is a story of portraiture, a philosophy of the book, and the retrieval of a fifteen-year-old girl from the ruins of an unnamed (unnameable) event. This unsettling work builds out of the debris of fractionated memory and broken gestures toward an illuminated structure, a thought project well worth the time it will take to know it. "WHAT BEGAN US is an agitated, activated lyric that incants to a changing, pulsating beloved. What or who this beloved is goes beautifully unnamed. This is a new take on that very old form of the lyric. In its newness it is something shimmering and fully complicated."-Juliana Spahr
- GenresPoetry
87 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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January 23, 2008
experimental writing at its best! The reason I changed my thesis topic. This book may change your life--in the way Buzzeo creates haunting imagery and repetition.
February 20, 2008
Something to read over and over, a truly cross-genre work...mysterious and confusing at times, yet still rewarding as an experiment in language...
February 4, 2008
a nice hand on your back.
October 9, 2008
Check out my review of this book in
Tarpaulin Sky's on-line journal (Winter 2008).
Tarpaulin Sky's on-line journal (Winter 2008).
November 29, 2024
A book that frees you from remembering.
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