Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781933527604)

Fast, obsessive, jumpy, tender, and joyful, the poems in Wayne Koestenbaum's Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background take his signature themes stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation and cut them into serial strips: tidbits that employ techniques of pointillism, mosaic, grid, aphorism, litany, and philosophical investigation. The luminaries in this memory-theater range from Yvonne de Carlo to Hannah Arendt. A trip to Venice and an invocation to an eschatological ice-cream man are the two longest trysts in a book exquisitely composed of "bits" that betoken a new brutalism in a writer known for svelte cadences and artful dodges.

Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
ISBN-10: 1933527609
ISBN-13: 9781933527604
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2012
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/20/2012 pg. 144