DOKUMENT

by Catherine Meng

In a sequence populated by iconic figures ranging from Peachy Peach and Glenn Gould to Bon Jovi and someone called Bullet, Meng writes a fragmentary lyricism informed by her Philip Roth "It's impossible to report anything faithfully other than one's own temperature; everything is allegory."

Genres: Poetry

16 pages, Saddle stapled chapbook

First published September 1, 2008

About the author

Catherine Meng moves her own couches.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the great things about being a poet and being friends with poets, is that we are often able to watch a work being born out of nothing and then coming into existence as a book, years later.

I remember emailing with Catherine about some of the things in this chapbook (the dead neighbor, particular) and thus the book itself becomes a weird mirror into time. All books are this, but it is a particular thing someone's own recollection becomes our own. That's what Proust does, I guess, and the same thing that happens here.

[Drew Kunz]

"how the price of gasoline
equals the end of sharing"

terrific...

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Too short? Or just perfect? Buy it and decide for yourself.