In the fifth poem from There Are No New Ways To Kill A Man, Amy Wright tells us “Lao says be alive to difficulty.” This is one way to read Wright’s work—staying keenly aware of complexity in language, thought, and image—as she moves deftly between moments of extreme density and moments of simple, deadpan candor. She follows Lao’s urging with a forthright assertion: “Being alive is difficulty. / I’d rather be strangled / than so awfully disappointed / / But then I’ve never been strangled.” Wright’s words have a “sort of bloom” that quickly—using her words—dissolve into “a bubbling rust” at once unsettling and dazzling.
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March 27th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
A sample poem is online at: http://ryantrauman.com/traumanblog/?p=158
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I have looked for this book on both the Amazon and Small Press websites and have been unable to locate it. Do you perhaps know when it will become available through one of those locations? Thanks.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Hi Ashley, you can order it directly from us. Check out our Books and Authors page for the info. . . .thanks for your interest.