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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 Inspired 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: "Riveting . . . Reading this work is truly a joy."—Publishers Weekly "This compilation includes the best of Jarnot's Whitmanesque reflections and Ginsbergian outcries, speech acts that list always toward an avant-garde."—Booklist "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 Journal "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 Henderson Praise 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 "Through a variety of forms, the collection shows the tensile strength of Jarnot's writing over an extended period, and the mutability of what can be done with the line."—Rob Mclennan Rob Mclennan's Blog 08 "There's a pop-Romanticism, American to the core, behind the majority of Jarnot’s most easily enjoyable verse . . . . These poems orbit day to day reality on paths based off non sequiturs and randy loop de loops."--Patrick-James-Dunagan, The Rumpus The Rumpus 08 "Jarnot's poetry continues to resonate because–after the experimentation and language play–her poems still burst both with feeling and beauty. . . . Jarnot finds a way to capture a moment of emotional intensity with and in language, while simultaneously letting that moment retain the mystery and the wonder which it produces."—Joshua Ware, Vouched Books Vouched Books 08 "In surgical selections from four books and two chapbooks, Jarnot emerges as a unique force in post language lyric poetry. Her work reaches back to the recombinant spontaneity of Gertrude Stein's collage aesthetic and inflects it with William Carlos William's rigorous attention to the poem as a self contained machine whose rules are quite strict." --Ted Mathys, Rain Taxi. Rain Taxi 08 "In this first retrospective of Jarnot's work, language’s power to transform the self is, through repetition, enacted: 'I am clinging to the baked goods and the liquor store, I am nearly Spanish and then nearly other things, I am cutting you with broken glass.' Balancing a honed, poised modern lyric with postmodern playfulness—in the vein of sometimes Stein ('tractor/ of chinchilla, chili of chinchilla, chill of the/ chinchilla, crosswalk of chinchilla of the dawn'), sometimes Stevens ('Inside of my inspection house there are/ things I am inside of lacking only linens/ and the tiniest of birds, there are small ideas/ of tiny birds and things they are inside of')—it’s clear that Jarnot’s earlier multimedia poetic experiments inform later poems, where each word or phrase is treated as an ingredient, accruing potency in quantity, some acting as generative hooks, lengthening and deepening a poem’s breath ('how terrific it is to be/ misled inside a hallway, and how terrific it is/ to be the hallway as it stands inside the house'), others as fixed points to keep us, in the dizzying dream logic of these riveting, long-winded works, balanced. Reading this work is truly a joy." Publishers Weekly 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 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." 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