Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background

by Wayne Koestenbaum

Fast, obsessive, jumpy, tender, and joyful, the poems in Wayne Koestenbaum's Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background take his signature themes--stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation--and cut them into serial strips: tidbits that employ techniques of pointillism, mosaic, grid, aphorism, litany, and philosophical investigation. The luminaries in this memory-theater range from Yvonne de Carlo to Hannah Arendt. A trip to Venice and an invocation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933527609
• ISBN13: 9781933527604
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.2"