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Poetry. 'What if I won't find what I expect when I open this?' is one of the first lines in Lee Upton's excellent new book, BOTTLE THE BOTTLES THE BOTTLES THE BOTTLES. It's the perfect salutation for a book that deals out genuine surprise--in thought, image, and feeling --with the formal dexterity of a Vegas pit boss. This is without a doubt my new favorite book. Upton has long been a well-respected poet, prose writer, and literary critic, but she deserves much more popular attention, including yours.-- Erin Belieu

Lee Upton is a poet of rare intelligence and craft. She has a cold eye and a warm heart, and her poems are well-made, moving, intellectually stimulating. Among my favorites in BOTTLE THE BOTTLES THE BOTTLES THE BOTTLES, her admirable new collection, are poems that resemble an unconventional verse essay on a subject disclosed in the poem's title. Anyone who has spent dreary hours in time-consuming meetings will enjoy Upton's transmutation of the experience in 'The Committee.' A meditation on 'The Defeatists'--people whose reflexive mantra is 'we're not out of the woods yet'--includes the paradox that even their search for disappointment is bound to result in failure. In 'Modesty, ' Scheherazade, the 'patron saint of suspense, ' beguiles her tyrant with her tales, though 'At some level // she could do nothing for him.' This thought is capped off with the stunning couplet that ends the poem: 'Neither could have / Chekhov.' These are poems to read, reread, and ponder. The rich heritage of English poetry--Herrick, Keats, Poe, Dickinson, Wallace Stevens--hovers over Upton's labors and adds an extra layer of wit for the discerning reader.--David Lehman

These poems have tensile strength and pleasurable intelligence. They're muscular and ironic. Some are tough minded and thistle-prickly (as Flannery O'Connor was tough and prickly, also with a dash of Plath). The swallowed violence in fairy tales and 'the romantic' is reimagined here. Female archetypes are one of Upton's touchstones: Pandora, Salome, mermaids, Lady Macbeth, Persephone. The poems interrogate ways we used to live versus what we're in the grip of now. And they question what beauty is, in a voice both droll and fierce. They give off a dark gleam.-- Amy Gerstler


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780986025778
  • Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
  • Publisher Imprint: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0986025771
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 214 mm
  • No of Pages: 100
  • Series Title: New Poetry
  • Weight: 186 gr


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