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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872865815 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100878040 02 0872865819 03 9780872865815 15 9780872865815 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights Spotlight</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Advice for Lovers</TitleText> 1 A01 Brolaski, Julian Talamantez Julian Talamantez Brolaski California-born, Brooklyn-based poet Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011) and an editor at the journal Aufgabe and at Litmus Press. Julian has studied with Nathaniel Mackey, Elizabeth Willis, Lyn Hejinian, and Robert Hass, received an MFA from Mills College, and is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley. Xir dissertation is on rhyme and xe currently teaches writing at the New School. Xe also curates vaudeville shows and is the lead singer and rhythm guitar player in the country band Juan & the Pines. New work can be found on Julian's blog hermofwarsaw. 01 eng 98 00 98 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 Inspired by Ovid's instructional Ars Amatoria, with overtones of Renaissance sonnet cycles, Advice for Lovers is a unique and highly wrought volume of poems. Intricate in form but modern and tawdry in diction, Advice for Lovers walks a fine line between the anything-goes orthography of the Elizabethans and the shifting etymologies of Finnegans Wake. With the inclusion of trans- and third-gender pronouns, the work also argues for a proliferation of pronouns beyond a gendered dichotomy. Divided into two sections, "Advices" and "Nudisms," the book dispenses wisdom on timeless topics of love like "How to Transfigure the Body Utterly," "What to Do When the Muse Becomes Your Lover," and even "How to Leave Your Lover." Yet in the midst of its classical splendor we encounter more contemporary figures like Johnny Cash, Ricky Martin, and Jack Spicer. Sexy, kinky, disquieting, Advice for Lovers blazes an erotic trail into the 21st century. Praise for Advice for Lovers: "Advice for Lovers is the type of book that makes you see language with fresh eyes, challenging you toward something fiercer and more honest yet. It leaves you bruised and aching to be bruised again, and isn't that what you were asking for after all?" —The Rumpus "What if I'm spirited away to live in a torch song?—Where the landscape is a lover's discourse? Julian Talamantez Brolaski has me in thrall! In this enchanting book, Julian jacks up the artifice and jacks up the feeling." –Robert Glück "In this aesthetically audacious collection of poems, Julian Talamantez Brolaski offers xir 'advice to lovers' in unabashedly voluptuous language. This is dithyrambic verse, variously festive and feisty, impudent and sad. It is beautiful, but never serene. And how could it be? The difference between 'seeing to' and 'singing to' is not large, and everything in this book suggests that to advise is to love. In giving it, Julian exercises xir native tongue with linguistic amorousness over a wide range of poetic registers. Guidance has never been this much fun; jouissance has never been smarter." –Lyn Hejinian "'The cure for love is more love,' and the cure for the languishing lyric lies in the architecture of these poems. Julian Talamantez Brolaski's Advice for Lovers builds 'upon the ponderous page' new structures for our most lustful and deviant acts. A highly intelligent form of re-purposed 16-century gestures that rouses the reading body, again and again." –Renee Gladman "The copy tags the work 'sexy, kinky, disquieting . . . blazes an erotic trail.' And it does so with a pervasive humor that does not make light of but rather sinks the moment deeper into the psyche, where sex, pain, longing and humor all hang out. I'm so into this book!"—Michelle Tea 02 Inspired by Ovid and renaissance sonnet cycles, Advice for Lovers is a queer re-imaginging of the art of courtly love. 08 "Advice for Lovers effectively and provocatively broadens love poetry's lineage. Here is T.S. Eliot’s call for invention through and not against literary history. However, Advice for Lovers offers something other than Eliot’s mere filing system formulation of history that, while always complete, is also altered when the new settles beside the old. Instead, Brolaski’s book is a festive mixer and everyone who is a lover is invited to the party. . . . Advice for Lovers is a celebration of form—the poem’s, the lover’s and beloved’s body, the pronoun—as transformative pleasure and literary invention." Bombsite 08 "Advice for Lovers is the type of book that makes you see language with fresh eyes, challenging you toward something fiercer and more honest yet. It leaves you bruised and aching to be bruised again, and isn't that what you were asking for after all?" —T Fleischmann The Rumpus 08 "The Advice for Lovers poems are less to do with word-creation and more to do with wordplay. They are obedient to the conceit which is their title / which is to say that they are a manual for use by lovers / before during and after the event(s) of love. . . . His sense of love is playful and lustful and full." —Alan Davis The Poetry Foundation 08 "[A] book with power, scope, and dedication to sexuality and 'Love, that god among goddesses'...There's much to gush over, and a few audacious poems that may threaten a swarthy sexpot with red-faced embarrassment." —Jim Piechota Bay Area Reporter 08 "Truly, these poems—all those in the book—are great, the naughtiest ones just happen to also rank among the most superbly supple display of an embrace of lyric language to be found in the work of any contemporary younger poet. Brolaski's gifted play of alliteration and syllabic deft shines with this collection. The power is immediate and raw." —Patrick James Dunagan The Volta: Friday Feature 08 "Sensuous in dawn, daylight, dusk and night, Julian's new book Advice for Lovers is a primrose-rich , self-indicating rite of passage that in order to progress, must pass well through itself." —J/J Hastain Big Other 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100878040/images/87286100878040L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100878040/images/87286100878040S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100878040 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20120401 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20120401 01 02 13.95 USD