Honey Surviving Oil
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (856 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1532826877 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 84 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Honey Surviving Oil, from newcomer Chan Plett, overflows with romantic ghost stories, sensual encounters with the natural world, and love songs about Long Beach, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Lyrical with Neruda-esque fantasies and Brautiganian wit, these poems are dream-like epiphanies. They begin at the threshold of feeling, and lead the reader into the most surreal and sensitive chambers of the self.
PRAISE FOR HONEY SURVIVING OIL "A complete, sprawling landscape that slowly reveals itselfraw and unyielding."—Tom Philip, Contributor for GQ and The New Yorker “From the first lines of the opening poem Sea, I was hooked. Her poems are fragile portals into a landscape full of magic and longing, where women “wear garter
About the Author CHAN PLETT is a poet, writer, copywriter, and editor from Los Angeles. Each stanza is stacked with longing, rose-tinted nostalgia, adventure, lust, fear, voyeurism, death, heat, insecurity, myth, and love, all wrapped up in the glow of Los Angeles’ golden hour and tied with the icy wind that rustles Autumn leaves and drizzled with lots—and lots—of honey.”— Artemis Thomas-Hansard, Staff Writer at LA Weekly and Contributor for VICE "In an alternate America, one where Anne Sexton was still alive, Joni Mitchell was still strumming her guitar, and Lee Miller was still taking photographs, Chan Plett would be the nation’s Poet Laureate. With each syllable, new turns of meaning bloom, and bloom the flowers of her phonetic imagination culminating in gardens of warm color, and hushing delight."— Daniel Warren, Former Editor of Flaunt Magazine. PRAISE FOR HONEY SURVIVING OIL<
Five Stars A++. Shaddy said A passionate voyage of a lover in a lonely world. This is a story of a romantic's relationships with her city, her past, and and her lovers. The story is a voyage, effectively told through imagery. So sharp are the writer's words, that one page fills me with warmth while another leaves me cold and naked in a void. Each poem exposes the inherent complexity of the writer's relationships and her continuous struggle between a rose-colored view of the world and its ultimate disappointment.