ISBN 978-1935084-98-3
\n 86 pages: $16.00
\n March, 2016<\/p>\n
Through narrative persona poems, appropriated texts and updated remixes of canonized works,\u00a0Crossing Bryan Ferry and Other Poems<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>explores the destabilization of language and its effects on identity in an accelerated culture.\u00a0 While paying homage to marginalized people and fantastic places, this work strives to evoke empathy and recognition while illuminating the recesses of the splintered lyrical self.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Like punk patches stitched to a well-worn denim jacket, Oneiric\u2019s poems constellate a collection of lives, or proclaim the DIY-ness of one life that\u2019s been fully lived-in. \u201cAlmost at times a witch, a bitch, a \/ Stitch on the gaping wound of time\u201d Oneiric stirs up the voices from the inside and the other inside\u2014the stripper, the porn store clerk, the professor, your mother\u2019s voice on the answering machine\u2014and patterns them into a fabric of living, frayed and tender with wear. Sliding between prose and a poetry of fragment and sound,\u00a0Crossing Bryan Ferry<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0goes in one ear and stays there: \u201c \u2018Can I have this?\u2019 \u201d we ask, and Oneiric answers, \u201c\u2018I don\u2019t know. Can you take it?\u2019\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n Izzy Oneiric pays homage to \u201cthe similitudes of the past\u201d while deftly recasting the patriarchal canon of male authors. The love song of Eliot\u2019s Prufrock has been transplanted with karma (\u201cDownstairs, the waitresses bemoan \/ Their fallen arches and Al Capone\u201d), and other widely anthologized poems are commandeered and recharged for the twenty-first century. Here, verse rubs shoulders with singers, strippers, and actresses, and a poem like \u201cSunday Morning\u201d evokes both Wallace Stevens and The Velvet Underground as it steers a journey all its own.\u00a0Crossing Bryan Ferry and Other Poems<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is rich in measure and juxtaposition, and the resulting effect (like Busby Berkeley) spins its kaleidoscopic charm to the shores of America and beyond: \u201cSomeday,\u201d Oneiric announces in this electric debut, \u201cthe Eiffel Tower will be mine.” Izzy Oneiric
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\n \u2014Jenn Marie Nunes,<\/strong>\u00a0author of\u00a0AND\/OR<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n \u2014Michael Robins,<\/strong>\u00a0author of\u00a0In Memory of Brilliance & Value<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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