Emanuel, Lynn

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Poet Thinks Too Much
Great Book!
the bomb

Then, Suddenly (Pitt Poetry Series)
Lynn Emanuel
Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Binding: Paperback

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The Dig and Hotel Fiesta (Illinois Poetry Series)
The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems 1967-2001
The Selected Levis (Pitt Poetry Series)
Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004 (Pitt Poetry Series)
Involuntary Lyrics

ASIN: 0822957094

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A reader and a writer don their respective roles and embark on the journey of a book. This is their story--ultimately a love story--darkly funny, mournful, testy. It is about a reader who at times presides over the page like a god, and at others follows the leash of the author's voice through the dark streets of the book like a dog, and it is about a writer of determined slipperiness. As we read, we think that each of us is The Reader, the one who knows the Real Story. But the more we think we understand, the more the story moves away from us-all is not what it seems.

This eagerly awaited third volume by the poet whose work The New York Times described as "at once charmed and frightening" is a book of high-spirited subversiveness, a work of argument, seduction, and a relentless devotion to language. Then, Suddenly-- bristles with the wound of the author's voice--insistent, vital, hilarious, and iconoclastic--tearing away at the confinement of the page and at the distance between the page and the reader. Emanuel's images are dazzling. She creates a performance that is fearsome and funny in its portrayal of the argument between the work of the text and the world of the body. The Gettsburg Review has called her a writer of "exquisite craftsmanship" who can "strike from language . . . images chiseled clean as bas-relief." Then, Suddenly-- is a book of spectacle and verve, part elegy, part vaudeville.

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Poet Thinks Too Much.......2000-04-21

I saw some wonderful cagy things going on in Emanuel's first two books. But now comes THEN, SUDDENLY, which deconstructs itself word by word as it goes along, and in a very transparent manner. (The everyperson's answer to Jorie Graham will have to wait.) THEN, TO TOP IT ALL OFF the poems are flat. The life seems to have been revised right out of them. "When the reader's radar tracked me down" Emanuel writes. What happened? The answer is, You thought about it too much and the result is stiff, self-conscious poetry.

Great Book!.......2000-03-14

"~Glad to see someone else (and Kevin Canty, no less) thinks this book is good. I read the first stanza and immediately knew it was for keeps. It's a book of poems about a book of poems, about an author of a book of poems, about the aboutness of an author making a book of poems."~ happen up front, center stage.

the bomb.......2000-02-10

An amazing book of poems, or a book of amazing poems, or both. The bongo-madness rhythms of the voice linger in your head after you put the book down. Serious without being solemn, playful without being silly. I read this book first time through in a single sitting, and when I was done I knew that I had started somewhere and ended up somewhere else, though the precise names for either place eluded me. A very interesting, very smart, very pleasurable book.

The Dig and Hotel Fiesta (Illinois Poetry Series)

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the best!
well done
Shaping a world
Shaping a world
Extremely enjoyable and sophisticated

The Dig and Hotel Fiesta (Illinois Poetry Series)
Lynn Emanuel
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Then, Suddenly (Pitt Poetry Series)
American Sonnets: Poems
Rapture
A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women
Dark Blonde: Poems

ASIN: 0252064208

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the best!.......2005-02-22

It's always interesting when people either love or hate something, where there's no middle ground. And in art, often people hate things because it doesn't fit their idea of what art is, which is based on that which they've seen before. I can't bear much poetry and love Lynn Emanuel's work for precisely that reason: it's not like anything else. Her voice, her format is her own--sharp, clear, and funny--you laugh because she has hit the mark so perfectly.

well done.......2004-07-17

Lynn Emmanuel provides poetry not of self indulgence but simply of self in these two collections of poems. Her voice is strong, confident yet avoids the pitfalls of seeing meaning where there is none. That combined with the exacting but rich vocabulary make this collection one of my favorites to read, reread, and recommend to others.

Shaping a world.......2000-01-24

Lynn Emanuel's work in this combined collection is fresh and daring. It isn't surprising that some readers find it off-putting to encounter an entirely confident voice that doesn't beg a reader's approval but marches on with the keen intellect, humor, sharp and engaging characters and stories. Additionally Emanuel's imagery challenges and re-dresses the old cherry blossoms of verse.

Shaping a world.......2000-01-24

Lynn Emanuel's work in this combined collection is fresh and daring. It isn't surprising that some readers find it off-putting to encounter an entirely confident voice that doesn't beg a reader's approval but marches on with the keen intellect, humor, sharp and engaging characters and stories and imagery that challenges the old cherry blossoms of verse.

Extremely enjoyable and sophisticated.......1999-12-22

Emanuel is a terrifically strong writer, one America's best young mainstream poets, and this two-in-one volume holds up to -- and deserves -- close and repeated readings. The people who have given this book sophmoric, thoughtless one-star reviews are probably as pretentious and lacking in subtley as their comments.

Film noir: train trip out of metropolis. (Poem): An article from: The Antioch Review

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Film noir: train trip out of metropolis. (Poem): An article from: The Antioch Review
Lynn Emanuel
Manufacturer: Antioch Review, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 323 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details
Title: Film noir: train trip out of metropolis. (Poem)
Author: Lynn Emanuel
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: v52 Issue: n3 Page: p495(1) Distributed by Thomson Gale

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The DIG (National Poetry Series)
Lynn Emanuel
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Film noir: at the Ritz. (Poem): An article from: The Antioch Review

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Film noir: at the Ritz. (Poem): An article from: The Antioch Review
Lynn Emanuel
Manufacturer: Antioch Review, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 699 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details
Title: Film noir: at the Ritz. (Poem)
Author: Lynn Emanuel
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: v52 Issue: n3 Page: p496(2) Distributed by Thomson Gale

The Pushcart Prize XIX: Best of the Small Presses (1994 - 1995)

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You ought to be ashamed

The Pushcart Prize XIX: Best of the Small Presses (1994 - 1995)
Anthony Brandt
Manufacturer: Pushcart Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0916366928

Book Description

Now in its twenty-third year, The Pushcart Prize is one of the grand monuments of the American literary scene, yet it never fails to surprise, provoke, and delight readers. The short stories, essays, and poems are selected from literary magazines and small presses across the country, and represent the most exciting and innovative writing in America today. In the best Pushcart tradition, this fascinating volume combines the work of today's luminaries with a host of new talents, creating a wholly original amalgam of diverse voices --"an anthology of literature to nourish the human spirit" (Milwaukee Journal). The most honored literary series in America, The Pushcart Prize has won the Carey-Thomas Award, has been selected several times as a notable book of the year by the New York Times Book Review, and has been chosen for many Book-of-the-Month Club and QPB selections. Recently, Pushcart Press and its Prize were named among "the most influential in the development of the American book business over the past 125 years" by Publishers Weekly. Over 200 outstanding contributing editors helped make the more than 60 selections reprinted from over 50 presses in Pushcart Prize XXIII.

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You ought to be ashamed.......1999-10-11

The Pushcart Prize is the most wonderful and rewarding annual anthology out there because, for one thing, it's the most fair--as Bill Henderson says in his introduction, there's no money here. You don't have to have written a bestseller or be in with the "New Yorker" crowd in order to be published here. All you have to do is be a good writer. Here is fiction and poetry at its rawest and purest form, from writers who write for the sake of writing, for the sheer love of it. This is a noble thing.

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Fantastic.
Exquisite
hotel fiesta
A fantastic archeology of sin & soul...
REPUGNANT AT ALL LEVELS!

Hotel Fiesta
Lynn Emanuel
Manufacturer: Univ of Georgia Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0820307270

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Fantastic........2005-11-09

Lynn Emanuel, Hotel Fiesta (University of Georgia, 1984)

I've been a fan of Lynn Emanuel's for coming up on two decades now. So when I stumbled upon this early release in a Half Price Books a few weeks back, I was ecstatic. It was everything I expected it to be-- obsessive over detail, witty, pleasantly surprising on a regular basis. Lynn Emanuel, folks, is good stuff.

"If his face were halved by shadow I would know
This was a street where an EATS sign trembled
And a Greek served coffee black as a dog's eye. "
(--"Inventing Father in Las Vegas")

Definitely worth grabbing, if you see it. **** ½

Exquisite.......2005-10-08

This is an amazing early collection from one of our major poets. The diction is elegant, the images, startling, and the persona world-weary, brassy, and vulnerable all at once. I want to live in these poems.

hotel fiesta.......2000-04-06

hotel fiesta is composed primarily of free verse personal narrative poetry. Much of it deals with a recurring character's adolescence and early adulthood. While the poetry is beautifully descriptive, and describes precisely situations and scenes, the words themselves are not aurally beautiful--to me even it almost seems like creative prose with line breaks.

A fantastic archeology of sin & soul..........2000-01-16

This is one of my favorite poetry books of all times. It is sensuous, exact, full of truth and daring honesty. The language pours like streaming sunlight into the dark of a most interesting life. I doubt if Emmanuel can ever top this one! Where do you go from here? It's jazzy & acutely moving...

REPUGNANT AT ALL LEVELS!.......1999-09-01

I have survived the reading of Hotel Fiesta by Lynn Emanuel I can't believe the sub-standard poetics employed by her in this book. Can American poetry survive after being afflicted by Hotel Fiesta?

Oblique Light (Slow Loris poetry series)

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Oblique Light (Slow Loris poetry series)
Lynn Emanuel
Manufacturer: Slow Loris Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Technology of Love
Lynn Emanuel
Manufacturer: Abattoir Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0318410249

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The Dig and Hotel Fiesta
Lynn Emanuel
Manufacturer: Univ of Illinois Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J4NF40

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