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| At Zinc Bar. 83 West Third Street, NYC. Geographies of Soul and Taffeta & Michael Broder's martini. |
Yesterday was the third stop of my whirlwind three-reading
tour – Greenwich Village to Brooklyn to the Lower East Side. Thanks to Douglas,
Patricia, George, Jane, and my co-reader in the LES, Christine Hamm. And Indolent's Michael Broder.
I have thus launched Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books), which
can be purchased any of three ways and perhaps through a means more mysterious than I can comprehend. In the meantime:
1----Through me. Hit me up if you are
in the New York City area.
2----Indolent Books. Click here.
3----Amazon. Here is where you click.
The
blurbs:
Sarah Sarai's Geographies of Soul and Taffeta takes place in a universe where the real and the
unreal meet each other in a careful, ecstatic dance, where words melt into
their partners and opposites, and Yin and Yang swirl together like the best
kind of soft serve ice cream. The ideas and images here are exact, surprising
and often, humorous: in fact, Sarai's poems strike new ground in being
intelligent and far reaching while maintaining an air of humility and matter of
fact-ness. Christine Hamm, Echo Park
The poems in Sarah Sarai’s Geographies of Soul and Taffeta are
little transgressions, butterflies a-wing. They present a poetry of surprise. Don’t
expect candy (though there might be some); don’t expect demons (even the ones
who live there). Dive in, world-hunter, dream-needer. Let Sarai’s vision and
images wing you to your next place, fiercely reflective and very much alive.
Richard Lorenger, Poems for Teeth
This is strong and
beautiful work. What haunts me most has to do with the emotional acuity and
authority exemplified in how the poems’ subjectivities are rendered essential.
The generosity, the word play and re-play, the variations, the real world and
its perpetual redemptions, the imagination's power not to transform exactly,
but to reveal, which is transforming, make Geographies
of Soul and Taffeta a rewarding read. Debora Lidov, Trance
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