Evelyn Reilly
FERVENT REMNANTS OF
REFLECTIVE SURFACES
$6.50 ppd.
BIO:
Evelyn Reilly lives in New York City and writes poetry, as well as text for museum exhibits on historical and cultural subjects. Her first book, Hiatus, was published by Barrow Street Press in 2004, and selected by Cole Swenson as a runner-up for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. In addition to her chapbook from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, recent work can be found in Lungfull! and How2, as well as other journals. Reilly has taught visual poetics at the Poetry Project and co-curates the winter segment of the Segue Reading Series. She is currently pondering the relation of ecology and poetry, and is editing ) ((eco (lang) (uage ( reader)), a collection of essays on the subject with Brenda Iijima.
EXCERPT:
REVIEW:
LINK to review from chaxblog by Charles Alexander
Evelyn Reilly lives in New York City and writes poetry, as well as text for museum exhibits on historical and cultural subjects. Her first book, Hiatus, was published by Barrow Street Press in 2004, and selected by Cole Swenson as a runner-up for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. In addition to her chapbook from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, recent work can be found in Lungfull! and How2, as well as other journals. Reilly has taught visual poetics at the Poetry Project and co-curates the winter segment of the Segue Reading Series. She is currently pondering the relation of ecology and poetry, and is editing ) ((eco (lang) (uage ( reader)), a collection of essays on the subject with Brenda Iijima.
EXCERPT:
In the reek of an era
the bog men & Softness of big hands
clipping tiniest nails
Presence of the Past carried by the multicolored
fold
center
fold
Bright White Blue Silver dark
her platinum hair
and the language she flew
through
skin yards and yards
Why not have the nouns (of body)
placed exactly
the bog men & Softness of big hands
clipping tiniest nails
Presence of the Past carried by the multicolored
fold
center
fold
Bright White Blue Silver dark
her platinum hair
and the language she flew
through
skin yards and yards
Why not have the nouns (of body)
placed exactly
REVIEW:
LINK to review from chaxblog by Charles Alexander