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Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems
Reviews
Feminist Review:
“Displays both [Equi’s] wit and style, as she employs a varying range of forms, from minimalist to narrative; list to haiku.”
Harriet (the Poetry Foundation’s Web log) Rae Armantrout:
“This collection adds some sharp new poems to a generous sample of Equi’s work from 1978 through the present. Her poems are mischievous, sly, and ‘slant’ in Dickinson’s sense of that word.”
nycBigCityLit.com:
“Equi’s work is where pop truly gets culture, understands it, loves it, buys it a drink, and takes it home at night.”
PhillyBurbs.com, Deidre Wengen:
“A great selection of poetry . . . introspective, brash and completely compelling.”
Poetry Project Newsletter:
“Satisfying and fun.”
Rae Armantrout:
"For thirty years Elaine Equi's alchemical poems have made dark magic from kitsch, from the burnt-out dead ends of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Ripple Effect brings them together in a way that makes us look with increased vigilance at the totems of our culture. These years, these fetishes, these poems fascinate and enlighten."
John Ashbery:
"Elaine Equi's narrow lines are like the rungs of a ladder that one ascends while one is descending them. It's a motion like that in Wang Wei's lines, 'Stars / float up / toward dawn,' which she quotes in her cento, 'Wang Wei's Moon.' Or, as she beautifully puts it, 'Discreetly a breeze enters the room.'"
August Kleinzahler:
"Deft, delicate, subversive, and more quotable than any American poet who comes to mind, Elaine Equi's poems have a mystery to them that their offhandedness and surface whimsy belie. Reading her, you may find the world becomes a more unstable, various, and gently freaky place."
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