I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780988944756)

Poetry - ISBN: 978-0-9889447-5-6 Melissa Studdard's high-flying, bold poetic language expresses an erotic appetite for the world: "this desire to butter and eat the stars," as she says, in words characteristically large yet domestic, ambitious yet chuck- ling at their own nerve. This poet's ardent, winning ebullience echoes that of God, a recurring character here, who finds us Her children, splotchy, bawling and imperfect though we are, "flawless in her omni- scient eyes." -Robert Pinsky In so many ways the poems in this book read like paintings, touching and absorbing the light of the known world while fingering the soul until it lifts, trembling. Gates splayed, bodies read as books, and hearts born of mouths, Studdard's study, which is a creation unto itself, would have no doubt pleased Neruda's taste for the alchemic impurity of poetry, which is, as we know, poetry that is not only most pure of heart, but beautifully generous in vision and feeling. -Cate Marvin

Author: Melissa Studdard
ISBN-10: 0988944758
ISBN-13: 9780988944756
Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc.
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2014
Pages: 82
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d