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"I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid poetics that radically reimagines the shape of our poetic discourse. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of
Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future. This is Lynn Emanuel's most exquisite and powerful book yet."--David St. John
About the author
Lynn Emanuel is the author of
Noose and Hook,
Hotel Fiesta,
The Dig,
Then, Suddenly, and most recently,
The Nerve of It, which received the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her work has been collected numerous times in
Best American Poetry and included in
The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She has been published and reviewed in the
New York Times Book Review, the
New York Review of Books, the
Los Angeles Review of Books,
BOMB Magazine,
Poetry, and
Publishers Weekly. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at many venues including the Warren Wilson Program and the Bread Loaf Conference.
Summary
“I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future.
