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pinkprint
An anthology of the journals of the neighborhood of journals housed at Pink Plastic House a tiny journal (kristingarth.com).
- GenresPoetry
48 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2020
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November 7, 2020
Pinkprint is a dollhouse anthology, that is, a paper dollhouse built with neon poems, and it begins so perfectly with editor Kristin Garth's own poem 'Pink Plastic Houses': 'The house you buy at 25 is pink/and four feet tall. Twilight Wal-Mart purchase,/ you make with cash you mine from men who think/it's all pretend.' The dollhouse architecture is wildly creative.
October 13, 2022
Instead of blueprints, we have Pinkprints: what created Garth’s first “tiny journal”/published li’l lit mag. It’s a bunch of poems by contributors. It’s very cute each poem is headed by a dollhouse location like basement, telephone or window. The first one is very scattered and Asian-American political & queer or perhaps each stanza of line is meant to be its own poem. Some good irony if not self-hating within the romance/hookups. The next poem by Kendall A. Bell is short & literally sweet about strawberry kisses & midnight bike rides. Experimental micro in the next about Lolita. Mirrorland by Amanda Glassman is a fantastically vivid poem about shades of pink & girlhood.
An Attic poem by Robin Sinclair has a good unraveling and wordplay about suicide longing, hidden cigarettes, and lost relatives. Vacation Home by Sara Matson has a cool line about a yellowed reflecting pool w/ moonflowers & brittle China. Delicately somber end to it. J.A. Pak has flash prose about a “stormy womb”/sad mom. Sam Jowett has some neat dark phrasing w/ taut corsets & candle wax, “drip-syllable-detonation.” There’s a sort of now and then diary of Dean Rhetoric based on REM’s album Automatic for the People which is pretty interesting and how each cut off sentence bleeds into the next song or point or tragedy divided by decades.
Many religious and diseased allusions throughout this book. Some of the other poems I just didn’t connect to the well-treaded premises or subtly ugly imagery, some very hard threads to follow.
An Attic poem by Robin Sinclair has a good unraveling and wordplay about suicide longing, hidden cigarettes, and lost relatives. Vacation Home by Sara Matson has a cool line about a yellowed reflecting pool w/ moonflowers & brittle China. Delicately somber end to it. J.A. Pak has flash prose about a “stormy womb”/sad mom. Sam Jowett has some neat dark phrasing w/ taut corsets & candle wax, “drip-syllable-detonation.” There’s a sort of now and then diary of Dean Rhetoric based on REM’s album Automatic for the People which is pretty interesting and how each cut off sentence bleeds into the next song or point or tragedy divided by decades.
Many religious and diseased allusions throughout this book. Some of the other poems I just didn’t connect to the well-treaded premises or subtly ugly imagery, some very hard threads to follow.
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