Elizabeth Treadwell Poetry
ISBN 0-978-0925904-80-5
$16
92 pages
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Elizabeth Treadwell’s is a difficult but deeply rewarding poetry. It has a precision and a tenderness all of its own. —Nathan Thompson, Stride
Elizabeth Treadwell’s writing, in which human figures appear amidst fantastically embroidered surfaces, demonstrates volubility, humor, and intelligence in spades. —Joyelle McSweeney, Rain Taxi
This is a feminine poetry, marvelous, tough, and unrelenting. —Maureen Thorson, Boog City
The extraordinary satisfaction in reading Treadwell is that she doesn’t finish the ends, or attempt to resolve, knowing, perhaps, that, in the end, everything, including human attention, dissolves....Her writing is its own beam. —Nicole Mauro, Jacket
What is strange, then, is the way Treadwell’s refusal, her backing off, functions to generate worlds whose ambiguities and erasures function, to my reading, as fully determined. I don’t feel the labor of needing to fill in the gaps (perhaps because Treadwell’s gaps are enormously hard to fill are, in a real sense, honest); I feel instead the way in which those gaps speak and explain their inability to be filled. —Simon DeDeo, rhubarb is susan
If you want a feminist invention that is at once comic and confident, melodic and bizarre, affectionate and committed to its principles—then Treadwell is the next poet for you. —Stephen Burt, The Believer |
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Chantryby Elizabeth TreadwellISBN 0-925904-40-6 98 pages, $16 |
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Description: Chantry is song. Chantry is song that exceeds song structure in all dimensions to become invocation and enchantment. From "the vessel without a cover" to "late silhouette in / blue" it refuses to be contained, as a book wants to live outside its covers. Sing this: "linger so this grace of grace," yet sing it so that "the door cracks in so many different directions." It is in these cracks, these interstices, that Elizabeth Treadwell finds and makes song, and the song exceeds and excels. Wordsworth defined poetry as spontaneous overflow of emotion, recollected in tranquility. Hear the overflow: "lovelove. all back-slaps and gummy smiles; free for honest mating?" and hear the invocation of a tranquility available for recollection and celebration: "inventing an alphabet / and feast their Beloved for awhile." Throughout all, hear a language that irrepressibly invites the reader in, and creates a world worth the while, worth the song.
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from CHANTRY: sin-eater blue nostalgia mix knicked in the panty house. pooped in the pantry dish. index croplink. lime subject parallelogram to the bent tint. coexistence delegates. it was a lonely ride, my feet would rather follow. schoolcraftian fuel. "Snoopy
& Linus looked all over but they could rumor
of yellowstone. husbands meet on the street. novitiate chapter. painted tale greeted the reputation.
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| Elizabeth Treadwell lives with her family in Oakland, California, where she was born. Her other books include Populace (Avec, 1999) and LILYFOIL + 3 (O Books, 2004). She serves as director of Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, and is building a website at elizabethtreadwell.com. | |
