What Began Us

By Melissa Buzzeo

Poetry. Melissa Buzzeo's WHAT BEGAN US is a story of portraiture, a philosophy of the book, and the retrieval of a fifteen-year-old girl from the ruins of an unnamed (unnameable) event. This unsettling work builds out of the debris of fractionated memory and broken gestures toward an illuminated structure, a thought project well worth the time it will take to know it. "WHAT BEGAN US is an agitated, activated lyric that incants to a changing, pulsating beloved. What or who this beloved is goes beautifully unnamed. This is a new take on that very old form of the lyric. In its newness it is something shimmering and fully complicated."-Juliana Spahr

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976582031
• ISBN13: 9780976582038
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Leon Works
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.