Koestenbaum's book of poems minces memory and culture into titbits to propose a new 'nude' poetics. The collection draws upon his signature themes - stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation - and cuts them into serial strips. Using techniques such as pointillism, mosaic, aphorism, litany and philosophical investigation, the poet trips through a memory theatre whose luminaries range from Yvonne De Carlo to Hannah Arendt and assembles melancholy tesserae into tidily stanzaic sacrificial offerings.
- ISBN10 1933527609
- ISBN13 9781933527604
- Publish Date 3 May 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Turtle Point Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English