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Reviews
National Poetry Series Winner
James Laughlin Award Finalist
Ron Silliman, Silliman's Blog:
“Superb.”
Chicago Review:
“Adventurous
. . . finely wrought.”
Boston Review:
“A
celebration of the everyday uncanny.”
Village Voice:
“[Mlinko's
poems] coalesce, not into a pituresque scene but
into a sharp, complex feeling: a melancholy bordered
by delight and mortality, catching the transition
between innocent, sheltered playfulness and a darker,
more adult knowledge.”
Rain Taxi:
“Mlinko
takes firm hold of New York School techniques and
topics, but she gives them a good, hard, self-conscious
yank in her own direction . . . her deliberate, delicate
scamp's persona sounds good on her.”
Midwest Book Review:
“Free-spirited
and liberal in their use of rhyme, anagram, pun,
palindrome, and upbeat metaphor, Starred
Wire is the stuff of dreams spread across the
sky for all to see.”
Publishers Weekly:
“Mlinko
adds more lyricism and more depth to the Frank O'Hara-inspired
verve of her much-noticed debut, and the result should
raise even bigger waves.”
Open Books: A Poem Emporium, Seattle, WA:
“Playfulness
in thought and language are complemented by vivid
and unusual description . . . The vocabulary and
phrasing of the poems are contemporary yet archaic,
colloquial yet formal, making for a lively tension.”
Praise for Ange Mlinko
Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism
New Yorker:
“[Mlinko's]
intoxicating, cerebral poems display a unique sense
of humor and mystery.”
Time Out New York:
“Mlinko
tells the exuberant truth about what it's like to
be young, smart and in love.”
The Believer:
“Half
John Ashbery, half Harriet the Spy . . . Mlinko is
writing down the economically anxious, information-rich,
malleable, volatile generation.”
Poetry Project Newsletter:
“[Mlinko's]
work has two qualities that cannot be faked: a sense
of humor and life itself.”
Jacket:
“Among
contemporary lyric poets Mlinko has few equals.”
Xantippe:
“Mlinko's
is a poetry of rapturous transport, of travels geographical,
lexical and aesthetic.”
Publishers Weekly:
“[Mlinko's]
poetry's sky-high quotient of pure pleasure . . .
means that even readers used to smoother fare ought
to delight in her manifold ways.”
John Ashbery:
“Mlinko
leads us through a mysterious space where cultural
references and private recollections mingle and metamorphose
into startling, dreamlike atmospheres.”
Bob Holman:
“The making of a Mlinko poem is nothing less than
a new way of making a poem . . . It's a heady heady
brew—O'Hara conversation, Ashbery sophistication,
Koch hilarity, Schuyler shapeliness, Guest adventures,
Notley grain, Mayer utopia, Padgett whimsy.”
Charles North:
“Things
collide in Ange Mlinko's wonderful poems—words,
attitudes, phrasings, meanings—and the sparks fly.
Her poetry is simultaneously tough-minded and gorgeous.
If I had to bet on which young poets will be read in
twenty or thirty years, my money would be on her.”
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