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Equi's poems insist that despite the fact that most of our everyday reality has been rendered accountable and computable, there is still a region of experience that escapes our GPS-mapped consciousness-an intangible realm where poetry is still possible.
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"[E]nchanting…These poems suggest people should enjoy the fun of language while it lasts."
Publisher's Weekly
"Elaine Equi's perfect pitch sends her wry voice in directions no other contemporary poet knows how to visit. She trims a narrative to its mad essence; she winnows lyric into a shape more giddy than aphorism, more delirious than koan. Reality, in Equi's eyes, is pleasantly disrupted by words-her words, which are regular citizens of their sentences but also strangers to all normative modes of beha
Wayne Koestenbaum
"If Emily Dickinson were alive today, her name would be Elaine Equi. Each of these poem gems is a secret; to know them, simply read them."
Bob Holman