The Beautifully Worthless (City Lights/Sister Spit)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (508 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872865711 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Beautifully Worthless is a genre-smudging, American Mythos-screwing hell of a book. It's saturated with Liebegott's signature gifts: a peerless sense of humor and a capacity to bear witness to and articulate the darkest corners of fear and despair. This is an atlas for every queerly vagabond soul, a pillow book for the hopelessly heartweary."—Justin Chin"Ali Liebegott's The Beautifully Worthless is a mixed-genre tour de force, a classic yet subverted road story, an original and fierce claim on this country, and the generator of an unusual, moving canon. She maps her travels in letters to the girl she left behind and poetry about
"Yes, Ali, There is a Camus" according to Alex Renault. Ali Liebegott's new collection of poetry, The Beautifully Worthless, is a stunning debut. Fresh out of the gate from the wizards at Suspect Thoughts Press in San Francisco, this remarkable gem is a fresh and fantastic look at life in all its complexity, ugliness and beauty.Liebegott's work delivers a powerful wallop in few words and is almost a collection of epigrams that both saddens and inspires. My copy is filled with notations in the margins for future reference.Similar to Neruda in its earthiness, Tess Gallagher in its honesty, and Michelle Tea in ingenuity and style, TBW will m. Kevin Killian said Hosanna. I remember going to see David Wojnarowicz reading from CLOSE TO THE KNIVES and thinking that never again would I experience a reading of such power and such vast seismic changes of mood and register. And until two weeks ago, I still thought so. Then I went to see Ali Liebegott and had the same kind of earthquake experience all over again. She's insanely talented, it's mad.If any of you enjoyed Anne Carson's "novel in verse," AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN RED, I imagine you will like this book too. It is coming out of the same impulse, to find the lyric heart lurking inside narrative and to displa. Same Difficult World, Different Atlas Wayne Courtois One of the recurring images in this endearing book is that of the penny--worthless (practically), yet impossible to just ignore or throw away. So it is with the footloose narrator, who refuses to live a throw-away life, in spite of herself.Comparisons to Adrienne Rich's poem, "An Atlas of the Difficult World," are inevitable, since both works cover some of the same ground; Liebegott acknowledges such by quoting from the Rich poem. But while Liebegott shares Rich's astonishing gift for imagery, she also gives us something Rich rarely (if ever) does: humor. It has been pointed out, and
The Beautifully Worthless crisscrosses the USA, like Close to the Knives, like Kerouac, desperately seeking out everything occluded and driven, a frenzy of seeking frozen into poetry."Kevin Killian"Ali Liebegott’s books evoke a life-affirming sensation that comes from embracing the pendular. Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction."The Beautifully Worthless is an outrageous act of kindness."Eileen Myles"She's insanely talented, it's mad. Ali Liebegott maps her travels in a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the girl she left behind, and some of the most exquisite poetry written about love, heartache, and madness.. Her ability to hit the right tone is scientific, almost violent in its precisiona single word or observation, well-placed, can have a reader crying or laughing aloud."Evan Karp, Bomb MagazineA runaway waitress leaves her lover, grabs her dog, and hits the hig