Last Sext
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (623 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941040330 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Melissa Broder is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Scarecrone. . She is also the author of the essay collection So Sad Today. She lives in Venice, California. Broder holds a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from City College of New York. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, the Iowa Review, Tin House, Guernica, Fence, the Missouri Review, and the Awl among others
“Broder's poems offer a postmodern twist on the confessional, and they push for action in the face of despair.” (Publishers Weekly)“The poems of Melissa Broder pull off a strange and compelling trick: to exist meatily, viscerally, and even bloodily at the center of a void. Holes thump through the pages, blankness crunches bone, zeros growl with hunger. Each line is a little heartbeat hurling down the abyss.” (Patricia Lockwood)“Melissa Broder is absolutely one of the most important poets writing today. Her poems eviscerate the reader with their misty and murky charm, with their ability to say what is and not what should be, for their love of life and the sensual, for their knowledge of what it is like to be a
In her electric fourth collection, Melissa Broder penetrates the itch of existence and explores numberless deaths: the annihilation of self, the bereavement of love, the destruction of fantasy, the transmutation, even, of our ideas of dying. What emerges is an infinite series of false endingseach a trap door containing the possibility for alchemy, rebirth, and renewal. Part elegy, part confessional, part battle cry, Last Sext confronts both eternal longing and the mystery of mortality, with language hot, primal, and dark, as Broder’s fans have come to love.
"Broder is a profoundly good poet able to write in a manner that’s immediately" according to Daniel Casey. Broder is a profoundly good poet able to write in a manner that’s immediately accessible, endearing and off-putting as well as familiar and bizarre.. Good Melissa Broder's collection is a definite departure from the norm of what one finds on the bookshelves of poetry these days. Some poems have "the silent spider" quality of approaching demise, while others explore a sort of sacred space of confessionalism. This is definitely an interesting collection of poetry, though I think Broder could have gone much farther with a less sparse approach.