Once in a generation a young poet arrives with such an unexpected and compelling vision that readers take notice right from the start. With Primate Behavior Sarah Lindsay makes just such a debut. Her exuberant, witty, and outrageous poems have already stunned and delighted the readers of some of America's best magazines and journals. Primate Behavior is the product of a wild and exhilarating imagination, ranging wide across an abundant imaginary landscape. Sarah Lindsay writes of space migration and the cave paintings of 35 ...
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Once in a generation a young poet arrives with such an unexpected and compelling vision that readers take notice right from the start. With Primate Behavior Sarah Lindsay makes just such a debut. Her exuberant, witty, and outrageous poems have already stunned and delighted the readers of some of America's best magazines and journals. Primate Behavior is the product of a wild and exhilarating imagination, ranging wide across an abundant imaginary landscape. Sarah Lindsay writes of space migration and the cave paintings of 35,000 B.C. Her poems speak from the perspective of an embalmed mummy and detail the adventures of nineteenth century explorers. Lindsay investigates the world as no one has yet had the daring and inspiration to do, reanimating history and folk legend and setting in motion curious new worlds that speak eccentrically, but unmistakably, to their own. Primate Behavior is a remarkably sustained and self-assured performance. The Grove Press Poetry Series, which has brought the public both powerful retrospectives and the work of authors in mid-career, now introduces an exciting new poet, Sarah Lindsay. "Sarah Lindsay's molten imagination burns new channels for poetry. No lie." - Kay Ryan; "As a poet, Sarah Lindsay is fearless. Subjects others would find unpromising or intimidating she forms into poems of eerie, spectral beauty. Antarctic exploration, astronomical theory, the lungfish, the manatee, and the rotting orange-even Superman's puberty!-all are transmuted from strange Idea into graceful Song. Primate Behavior is a must read." - Fred Chappell.
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Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; soft cover shows very minor corner wear and some peeling and creasing along the left edge of the National Book Award Finalist seal; otherwise excellent. 104pp.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Clean, tight copy. Previous owner's bookplates inside front cover. // 'Once in a generation a young poet arrives with such an unexpected and compelling vision that readers take notice right from the start. Primate Behavior is the product of a wild and exhilarating imagination, ranging wide across an abundant imaginary landscape. Sarah Lindsay writes of space migration and the cave paintings of 35, 000 B.C.; her poems speak from the perspective of an embalmed mummy and detail the adventures and misadventures of nineteenth-century explorers. Lindsay investigates the world as no one has yet had the daring and imagination to do, reanimating history and folk legend and setting in motion curious new worlds that speak eccentrically, but unmistakably, to our own. Primate Behavior is a remarkably sustained and self-assured performance. '--publisher.
Add this copy of Primate Behavior: Poems to cart. $25.40, like new condition, Sold by Margaret Taylor Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from santa cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Grove Press.
