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With an ironic swish of the skirt, Elaina M. Ellis has delivered a sweetly strange first collection of poems. Reinventing femininity with each teasing line-break, Ellis pulls sexuality from form, and vulnerability from meter. By turns playful, blunt, and prayerful, Write About an Empty Birdcage documents the painful end of a romantic relationship; revels in the budding of new desire; and ultimately allows hope to climb quietly in through the back window. The poems which explicitly explore identity -- femaleness, Jewishness, queerness -- do so with a critique of power that blends humor, bloodied confession, and a reverence for tension. Ellis is a new poet to watch out for, neither belonging to the full-open swing of spoken word, nor to the inaccessibility of academia: the sonnet is a torch song, the prose poem is a fist. Here you find all the fleshy reveal of the truth, without the ease of nakedness. Write About an Empty Birdcage is a book of poetry that is worth the work of undressing.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Write About An Empty Birdcage
• Author: Elaina M. Ellis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94
• EAN: 9781935904281
• ISBN: 1935904280
• ID: 05034376
• Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
• Weight: 131 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. June 2011

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