A Handmade Museum

By Brenda Coultas

Book Overview

Brenda Coultas's prose poems take us on a well-documented tour from the Bowery, pre-1900 and post-9/11, to southern Indiana, pre-automobile and post-genetic engineering. Her poems are sculptures... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566891434
• ISBN13: 9781566891431
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

An Honest Look

I loved this book! It gives an honest look at parts of this country that are so often ignored. I especially liked a poem called "To Write it Down." I tried to read it outloud to someone but couldn't finish because I knew I was going to cry. This poet's work is like no other I have ever read and I found it very inspiring. I feel that reading this book has given me a new way of looking at ordinary details.

Experimental and Honest

Mina Loy's poems were first ridiculed as waste when published in America. She was before her time, as they say. Coultas, too, ventures into unknown territory daring to collapse genres, contain the urban and rural and allow language to move along the surface of the ordinary. The first part of the book is an honest sketch of experiences in the Bowery at its most basic level. In the garbage, treasures and mere trash are discovered. It is what it is, and Coultas gives us a chance to see the world through her eyes. She also presents a world on the stage, behind the camera lens, projected and false. It can be manipulated, the world and the words that shape it.