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Surface
Tension
Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle:
"[Equi writes] with a full, post-punk, Dorothy Parkerish kit of weapons: arched-eyebrow barbs, nervy, catchy hooks of pop-conscious metaphor and double-meanings stitched in light-handedly, 'as if doodled there with invisible ink.'"
Minnesota Women's Press:
"Written in sophisticated, sometimes biting, always lyrical language, these poems view life from the corners of their eyes, pulling out in stunning detail all the abstract images which suggest the horizon line of human bounds."
Poetry Project Newsletter:
"This book is what a publicity department might call a 'breakthrough volume' . . . Surface Tension stakes out some territory in that middle ground between a homebody anecdotal poetry and the experimentalist writings of the far territories."
David Shapiro:
"What's amazing about Elaine Equi's poetry is that it takes the best of abstraction and the maximum of figuration—city, family, and sex—and makes a fresh synthesis. One feels that she is the most hopeful poet alive."
John Godfrey:
"Elaine Equi's Surface Tension is a startling collection. Poem after poem surprises with quiet insights and unexpected, oblique details."
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