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    612-822-4611

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Cool Limbo

Cool Limbo

Montlack, Michael

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1935520407
ISBN13: 9781935520405
Publisher: Nyq Books
Published: May 15 2011
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
COOL LIMBO is a series of dazzling portraits that are accessible yet complex, hilarious yet poignant, down-to-earth yet ethereal. Like its cover, which features the title poem's sexy 70's chick lounging-stoned-by the pool (as she neglects the water-winged kids she's supposed to be babysitting), the book is the best kind of party-unofficial, unpretentious, and unabashed. And everyone's there on plastic lawn furniture...with six packs and lit cigarettes: From Liz Taylor, Gertrude Stein, and The Golden Girls, to Orpheus, Vanity Smurf, and Stevie Nicks. Poem after poem, these figures somehow mingle with the poet, in the not-so-still life studies of his boisterous family and friends, building a narrative about the departure from suburbia to the big city (from the ghost of a boy to a realized though sometimes-haunted man)-all while commenting on, as Elaine Equi puts it, the constantly shifting sexual codes assigned to men and women alike. Few places can you find a poem about a gay porn star that concerns itself with the meaning of objectivity and art just pages after a charged feminist manifesto called If Hello Kitty Had a Mouth. But beyond that colorful variety of subject and theme, not to mention his mastery of dialogue and what Mark Bibbins calls devious one-liners, what's most remarkable about this poet in his debut collection is his ability to confront the serious and painful while never abandoning his sharp sense of humor and playful spirit.

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