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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872865983 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100713030 02 0872865983 03 9780872865983 15 9780872865983 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights Spotlight</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Joie de Vivre</TitleText> <Subtitle textcase="02">Selected Poems 1992-2012</Subtitle> 1 A01 Jarnot, Lisa Lisa Jarnot Born in Buffalo, NY in 1967, Jarnot studied with Robert Creeley at SUNY Buffalo and later earned an MFA at Brown University. The author of four full-length poetry collections and the former editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter, she has also just published Robert Duncan: The Ambassador From Venus (University of California, 2012), the definitive biography of the San Francisco poet. Since the mid-1990s, she has lived in New York City. 01 eng 02 eng 110 00 110 03 20 poetry 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 "In these selected poems, which span Jarnot's 20-year career, she sends the flux of living language crashing into the controlled techniques of form. . . . This compilation includes the best of Jarnot’s Whitmanesque reflections and Ginsbergian outcries, speech acts that list always toward an avant-garde."—Booklist"For 20 years, Jarnot has refused to limit her sense of the poetic to language and line. Her ideas meddle in the traditions of form, medium, sound, and arrangement to recall the modernism of Joyce and Stein . . . This selection highlights her inventiveness."—Library JournalInspired by the Beats, Black Mountain, and the New York School, Lisa Jarnot emerged in the 1990s as one of the foremost poets of the post-Language avant-garde. Joie de Vivre draws on twenty years of work, from the bold fragmentation of her mixed media debut, Some Other Kind of Mission, to the experimental lyricism of her recent Night Scenes. Following the poet's evolution through her engagements with form and music, Joie de Vivre showcases Jarnot's restless virtuosity and relentless curiosity. The archaic, the surreal, the pastoral, the political—no register of language proves too recalcitrant for her expansive sense of song.Praise for Joie de Vivre:"Lisa Jarnot's book of joy raises joy in return. It is a poetry of lyric finesse and emotional daring, a rollicking vision of violet skies and walk-along streets, with the walker shamelessly in wonder but—yo!—cagily of the streets."—Aaron Shurin"Joie de Vivre rings out with troubled beauty, ancient lastingness, and a wild lyricism that shares as much with Johnny Cash as with Gertrude Stein and loves Homer even when it thinks like Abbie Hoffman. This work sets the house of American poetry on fire."—Elizabeth Willis"These always strongly oral poems that cry out from the page in sequences that veer between pure whimsy within a spoken word sensibility approach and often surpass art song territory. The crescendo resolution is felt in the extended "Amedillin Cooperative Nosegay" where the expanse of her well-=earned landscape becomes a realized space in proper necessity for the scope of her delightfully unpredictable poetic."—David HendersonPraise for Lisa Jarnot:"Lisa Jarnot . . . suggests that Language Poetry may be mutating, back to the modernism of Stein and Joyce, having been permanently inflected (or deflected) by a late twentieth-century sharpness and exasperation. . . . These are haunting, perplexing narratives of the inenarrable." —John Ashbery, Times Literary Supplement"Her best effects arrive as you zoom headlong right through her high-energy tangle of dissociation . . . in a particle accelerator where connective sense is bombarded by shards of broken grammar. . . ." —Albert Mobilio, Village Voice 02 New Spotlight Poetry: A selection from twenty years of poetry from one of the key avant-garde women poets of the post-Language generation. 08 In these selected poems, which span Jarnot's 20-year career, she sends the flux of living language crashing into the controlled techniques of form. Her finest explorations include Cubist accretions of data from different angles, as when her speaker observes "that in the field the cows are mooing, that I love things, that they love me back, that the cows all love each other and the daisies." Jarnot is a master of such measured revelation, in no rush to reach a punch line. Other pieces move like the minimalist loops of Steve Reich or Philip Glass. Reading the poems’ repeated phrases and reiterations is like listening to Jarnot adjust the tracking of a VHS tape’s misaligned image, zeroing in to achieve perfect focus. Once located, the result is devastating and pristine, as when she pictures a pastoral scene of “deer legs upturned in the snow, / wind-blown cow fur, grass fresh mown,” and describes a pelagic view of “multitudinous seas incarnadine.” This compilation includes the best of Jarnot’s Whitmanesque reflections and Ginsbergian outcries, speech acts that list always toward an avant-garde.— Diego Báez Booklist Online 08 "For 20 years, Jarnot has refused to limit her sense of the poetic to language and line. Her ideas meddle in the traditions of form, medium, sound, and arrangement to recall the modernism of Joyce and Stein: 'in the spring, where on an uninhibited/ island I strangled all the shepherd girls and/ became a smallish book.' This selected highlights her inventiveness. Get to know Jarnot." Library Journal 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100713030/extras/JoieDeVivreExcerptCL.pdf 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100713030/images/87286100713030L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100713030/images/87286100713030S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100713030 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 02 20130501