Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems

ISBN: 1566891973

Author: Equi, Elaine

Condition: New

Elaine Equis narrow lines are like the rungs of a ladder that one ascends while one is descending them. Its a motion like that in Wang Weis lines, Stars / float up / toward dawn, which she quotes in her cento, Wang Weis Moon. Or, as she beautifully puts it, Discreetly a breeze enters the room.-John AshberyRipple Effect showcases thirty years of Elaine Equis investigations into our cultural obsessions. Vivid, savvy, and accessible, her poems can transform almost anything-a list, a diary entry, advertising speak-into sophisticated, germane elixirs of pop culture and high art. Widely published, these poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry.