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Highlights
- A debut poetry collection from a writer whose vivid verse explores the connections and relationships that make us human Sometimes I like to feel sexy.
- About the Author: Sylvie Baumgartel lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- 80 Pages
- Poetry, Women Authors
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Book Synopsis
A debut poetry collection from a writer whose vivid verse explores the connections and relationships that make us human
Sometimes I like to feel sexy. Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I like to be very plain. Invisible almost, hiding in plain sight. I want to hide and to be found. In the spirit of the biblical Song of Solomon, Sylvie Baumgartel's Song of Songs takes the subjects of love and worship, and brings them to the desperate, wild spaces of domestic life. With a voice at once precise and oneiric, Baumgartel explores the landscapes of sex and desire, power and submission, in this groundbreaking book-length poem that forces us to question the bounds of devotion. An ambitious and vivid debut, Song of Songs is a work of breathtaking honesty, couched in language few of us are brave enough to speak aloud.Review Quotes
"The conventional power dynamics of heterosexual love appear in grotesque extremity ('I want to live forever chained at your feet'), but Sylvie's wit and charm make them more farcical than troubling. The result is a study of devotion and a celebration of the rewards that come from loving with abandon." --The New Yorker
"Baumgartel dodges nothing; instead, in a superheroic move, she grabs the bullet from air thick with tradition and history and swallows it whole . . . her language doubles back and takes up space without apology--a radical act for a femme-presenting speaker when so often women and nonbinary people are forced to be quiet, to be small. Paired with identity, the poem's extremity becomes a political act." --Kate O'Donoghue, The RumpusAbout the Author
Sylvie Baumgartel lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Subtropics, Raritan, Harvard Review, and The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from "The Paris Review".Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 4.9 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)
Weight: .1 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 80
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Women Authors
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
Author: Sylvie Baumgartel
Language: English
Street Date: September 22, 2020
TCIN: 94139254
UPC: 9780374539078
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-4196
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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