Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person's public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader's companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.
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- ISBN: 9780819575180
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- ISBN: 9780819575180
- File size: 2105 KB
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- English
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April 15, 2015
Poems about Kayne West? Written while the poet is pregnant? It's an unusual project, but not one that turns into biography or hagiography or even a memoir of obsession. Saturnalia Books editor Blake instead reveals how celebrities enfold and inform us, how they can become markers in our most personal moments ("I wonder if Kayne knows that these girls are experimenting. As with/ rum" she says of a younger sister and her possibly mean friends). Sometimes we think, "Now that's a stretch"--and sometimes that's exactly the point.
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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