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Decoy
Reviews
Amazon.com:
"Elaine Equi has a great capacity to surprise the reader, to take sudden, unexpected twists. The wonderful sleight-of-hand in ‘Sometimes I Get Distracted' got Equi included in a recent volume of The Best American Poetry. In ‘This Is Not a Poem,' she writes ‘. . . the poem comes into being/ . . . as the reader anticipates/' and her own poems create that very sense of anticipation. A strong talent."
SPIN:
"[Equi's] work does what poetry should do, yet very rarely does—make you feel the sensations inherent in words and their combinations, while simultaneously throwing down a savvy personal challenge."
Nation:
"Exceedingly delicate work, infused with a sly and bawdy sense of humor . . . Enjoyable and rewarding."
San Francisco Chronicle:
"Elaine Equi deftly collides bawdiness and faith, pop culture and high art, complexity and ease . . . the poems in Decoy are logically and syntactically taut, their surfaces tidy and terse with the frequent connectives lending an apparent seamlessness."
Publishers Weekly:
"Equi's second collection emerges as a provocative mixture of postmodern eclecticism and graceful wit."
Lit: Chicago's Literary Supplement: "Decoy is work with a wide-open eye: alert to surprises, steady in shocks. It's serious poetry."
John Yau:
"Elaine Equi is both wonderfully and playfully open to the world's shifting myriads . . . Niedecker, Rimbaud, Herrick, and Celan are happy to make guest appearances, because they know Equi is calmly sitting at the controls, attentive to orchids, oil lamps, and UFOs. Ladies and gentlemen, grab your hats and scarves and take the plunge."
Barbara Guest:
"Decoy moves upon you gradually with postludes of gentleness . . . then agile maneuvers that seize us unaware."
Fanny Howe:
"Equalitarian—sexy—these poems when read—on public transportation!—anywhere—will restore equilibrium."
Rae Armantrout:
"In Elaine Equi's brilliant Decoy . . . Everything is artifice. The poems in this book are both spooky and spoofy. Like Muhammed Ali, she floats while stinging."
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