They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full (Lannan Literary Selections)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (699 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556594585 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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MinnesotaMind said A Good Thing And A Bad Thing. Bibbins's poetry is wild and smart and very funny. If you're a lover of clear narrative or lyric poetry, poems which tell of an encounter in a doctor's waiting room, or paint the image of a young woman gracefully pushing her wheelchair through a parking lot in the rain (see Ted Kooser), these poems are not for you. Bibbins lives on the edge of traditional intelligibility. His poems are the children of Strand and Bly, Simic and Young: surreal, intuitive, inventive, and sometimes frustrating. Many times, the reader is supposed to be frustrated. Many times, Bibbins's goal is to literally CREATE fru. James Kelly said Important and humorous. Contemporary poetry sometimes is lacking in playfulness and humor. The poems of Mark Bibbins are playful and funny, even at their darkest and most important. Publishers Weekly chose this book as one of the best poetry books of "Important and humorous" according to James Kelly. Contemporary poetry sometimes is lacking in playfulness and humor. The poems of Mark Bibbins are playful and funny, even at their darkest and most important. Publishers Weekly chose this book as one of the best poetry books of 201Important and humorous James Kelly Contemporary poetry sometimes is lacking in playfulness and humor. The poems of Mark Bibbins are playful and funny, even at their darkest and most important. Publishers Weekly chose this book as one of the best poetry books of 2014 and it's easy to see why. It has a lot to say about our age of information bombardment and is highly recommended.. and it's easy to see why. It has a lot to say about our age of information bombardment and is highly recommended.. 01Important and humorous James Kelly Contemporary poetry sometimes is lacking in playfulness and humor. The poems of Mark Bibbins are playful and funny, even at their darkest and most important. Publishers Weekly chose this book as one of the best poetry books of 2014 and it's easy to see why. It has a lot to say about our age of information bombardment and is highly recommended.. and it's easy to see why. It has a lot to say about our age of information bombardment and is highly recommended.. Unrefined, unedited. Really unrefined. It doesn't seem like the author really put any work into his poems. He put the words down and then left them as they fell. A lot of non sequiters that are shallowly "deep" and meaningless phrases. If you are a fan of structured poems that have been edited to perfection, I do not suggest this. If you like poems that are "raw" and unedited and don't mind the lack of meaning behind them, this might be for you.
Bibbins is the editor of the poetry section of The Awl and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry. Mark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings; The Anxiety of Coincidence, a digital-only chapbook; and Sky Lounge, which received a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-f
Crazily enough, it's also packed with truth.”NPRThe voice of this third book from Bibbins is marked and numbed by the onslaught of American media and politics that saturate the Internet, television, radio, and smartphone: the way things are going, children/ will have to upgrade to more amusing.’ Much like advertisements or news stories vying for viewer’s attention, the book intentionally overwhelms, eschewing sections; the author instead differentiates the poems by repetition, creating a sort of echo chamber, similar to the way viral information cycles through social media platforms.”Publishers Weekly, starred review"A hilarious send-up of contemporary values and an alarm bell of sorts, directing attention to all that is so sinister in our civilization.”American Poets"Whip-smart and wickedly funny, They Don't Kill You is Bibbins's most authoritative and self-possessed collection to date."Boston ReviewThe poems in Mark Bibbins's breakthr
He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-founded LIT magazine, and at Columbia University. About the AuthorMark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings; The Anxiety of Coincidence, a digital-only chapbook; and Sky Lounge, which received a Lambda Literary Award. Bibbins is the editor of the poetry section of The Awl and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Boston Review, Tin House, The Best American Poetry, and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century.