Book 2014

Blood Makes Me Faint but I Go for It

Blood Makes Me Faint but I Go for It
Natalie Lyalin
Blood Makes Me Faint but I Go for It Blood Makes Me Faint but I Go for It
Information
Author
Natalie Lyalin
Title
Blood Makes Me Faint but I Go for It
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Ugly Duckling Presse
Date of Publication
2014
Material Type
Book
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
72
OCLC Number
879528984
ISBN
9781937027339
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
Natalie Lyalin. Blood Makes Me Faint but I Go for It. New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014.
Description
Natalie Lyalin’s second book of poems concerns itself with the process of geographic and familial dislocation. The poems move from village to city to a window from which the speaker witnesses brief atrocities and occasional delights: A peasant starts a revolution; a neighbor abuses his wife. Space and time are folded and refolded, and time travel is possible. Generations are gathered across oceans and continents. Their stories are braided together, slightly exalted, somewhat mourned in a kind of melancholia. Lyalin attempts a beautification of brutality that is only possible in retrospect. Eastern European Poets Series #34.
Natalie Lyalin’s second book of poems concerns itself with the process of geographic and familial dislocation. The poems move from village to city to a window from which the speaker witnesses brief atrocities and occasional delights: A peasant starts a revolution; a neighbor abuses his wife. Space and time are folded and refolded, and time travel is possible. Generations are gathered across oceans and continents. Their stories are braided together, slightly exalted, somewhat mourned in a kind of melancholia. Lyalin attempts a beautification of brutality that is only possible in retrospect. Eastern European Poets Series #34.