Sign-In
Cart
Crossing Pleasure Avenue
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781945023132
Publisher: Indolent Books
Published: Jul 15 2018
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We take our pleasure as we can, Karen Hildebrand writes in the title poem to Crossing Pleasure Avenue, in a voice filled with desire tempered by loss. And there is much pleasure in this book of terse lyrics that engages the reader with humor, brio, and bite, in poems about everything from the 60s TV show Leave It to Beaver with a crossdressing Beev, to imagining a year without men, to envisioning widows hijacking the C train. In these wildly imaginative poems, Karen Hildebrand sings the aging woman's body electric!
SHARON DOLIN
Karen Hildebrand's poetry is like sociology--if sociology could be felt by the hairs on one's neck and seen in fragrant, Fauvist Technicolor. Her brilliant debut full-length collection, Crossing Pleasure Avenue, reminds us of the strangeness of the everyday and the pleasure in those ripe moments when the past and the present buckle and overlap.
JOANNA FUHRMAN
Only Karen Hildebrand could write an ode to toilets of the world called Dear John; A History of Feminism that includes a bucket list; The Sixties, Explained via beloved TV shows; Ode to My Bunion; and The Day the Widows Hijack the C Train. From moonshine ranch wives to Emily Dickinson and her fruitcake to a Femme Fatale, Hildebrand honors the women who have come before and the women who we are. She is funny, fervent, and fierce. Crossing Pleasure Avenue is delightfully profound. I'd take a walk with her poetry any day!
DENISE DUHAMEL
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Lao Tzu
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover