Don't Go Back To Sleep
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00MU6CSL6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 249 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
As trauma begets trauma the poems slowly accrete, and Liu takes on a legacy of poetic witness where carnal violence ultimately turns to spiritual joy.. Don’t Go Back To Sleep answers the Sufi call to wake up to this life in the here and now where ecstasy serves its summons, inviting us to break out of the mundane quotidian. Timothy Liu winds the clock back to the Nanking Massacre in 1937, then traces its consequences on his family of origin, his mother’s mental illness, his father’s religious fundamentalism, and Liu’s obsessive search for love
TIMOTHY LIU is the author of nine books of poems, including Of Thee I Sing (2004 Publishers Weekly Book-of-the-Year), Vox Angelica (1992 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America) and Polytheogamy, an artistic collaboration. A professor of English at William Paterson University, Liu makes his home in Manha
About the Author TIMOTHY LIU is the author of nine books of poems, including Of Thee I Sing (2004 Publishers Weekly Book-of-the-Year), Vox Angelica (1992 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America) and Polytheogamy, an artistic collaboration. . Translated into many languages, his works are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. A professor of English at William Paterson University, Liu makes his home in Manhattan with his husband
"Singing the fitfulness of the human heart and the unquenchability of human desire" according to Philip J. Metres III. In "Don't Go Back to Sleep," poet Timothy Liu continues his poetic journey exploring with utter candor the fitfulness of the human heart and the unquenchability of human desire. Extending Allen Ginsberg's project of candor and Whitman's celebration of the body, Liu is fundamentally concerned with the politics of love; as a queer poet writing explicitly erotic poems, Liu's project is in some sense simultaneously deeply human and. "Amateurish, repetitive, small in scope and smaller," according to Ace11. Amateurish, repetitive, small in scope and smaller, meaner, in spirit. Does this writer have any kind of readership for "poems" that are in fact flat prose broken up into lines? This is MFA poetry at its lowest ebb. Lack of passion, tired tropes, faux-technique masquerading as style, a lack of content and impact that is embarrassing. Only the title is apt: these pages will quickly put the reader to sleep.