Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background

By Wayne Koestenbaum and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

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 to an eschatological ice-cream man are the two longest trysts in a book exquisitely composed of "bits" that betoken a new brutalism in a writer known for svelte cadences and artful dodges.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933527609
• ISBN13: 9781933527604
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.2"