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Ultramarine

Ultramarine

Koestenbaum, Wayne

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ISBN10: 1643621157
ISBN13: 9781643621159
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: Feb 22 2022
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.30 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

The chromatic, linguistically playful, erotic conclusion to Wayne Koestenbaum's acclaimed trance poem trilogy.


Ultramarine distills gleanings from four years of Koestenbaum's trance notebooks (2015-2019) into a series of tightly-sewn collage-poems, filled with desiring bodies, cultural touchstones, and salty memories. Beyond Proust's madeleine we head toward a deli version of utopia, crafted from hamantaschen, cupcake, and cucumber. Interludes in Rome, Paris, and Cologne permit spells of fevered play with Italian, French, and German. Painting and its processes bring bright colors to the surface, as if the poet were trying to figure out anew the nature of blue, pink, orange. Ultramarine reaches across memory, back to Europe, beyond the literal world into dream-habitats conjured through language's occult structures.

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