Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems

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The scale, the point of view Wronsky inhabitspart oracle, part brilliant best friendis unlike any poetry I know. Under the Capsized Boat We Fly collects four decades of work by this well known Los Angeles poet.

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Gail Wronsky is an astonishing poet whose work Ive turned to for more than twenty-five years to find the most deeply compassionate, artistically complex and intellectually astute poetry being written in this country. She is a literary revisionist of the most exquisite order, reconstructing the poetic canon, challenging the historical conventions of poetry and striking urgent, lyric chords of female empowerment. A breathtaking stylistat times philosophical and meditative, at times powerfully gestural and painterlyGail Wronsky is a poet of lasting beauty and relentless invention. With this book she takes her rightful place among the most celebrated of American poets. David St. John A master of the lyric, a visionary never far from the complicated, wondrous relations between world and imagination, body and mind, Gail Wronsky is one of our most indispensable poets. Her Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New and Selected Poems brings together a body of work that is at once fierce, sensual and startling: I lie like a sunbeam/amazed/at the edge of the page. The scale, the point of view Wronsky inhabitspart oracle, part brilliant best friendis unlike any poetry I know. Anarchy, domesticity, death, love, and the delicate, almost unnoticed invisibilities of the quotidian reign, never far from revolution. An epigrammatic wisdom arrives by often standing on its head: an uncanny truth that is so second-guessed and interrogated one cant help but trust in Muriel Ruykeysers prediction: If a woman said the truth about her life, the world would split open. At last, as Etta James would sing it. As spiky and uncompromising as the work of Leonara Carrington, these poems carry a rare, mystical alchemy. And as Wronsky writes, I am the woman filming it. Gillian Conoley

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Gail Wronsky is the author, coauthor, or translator of twelve books of poetry and prose, including the poetry collections Imperfect Pastorals; Poems for Infidels; and Dying for Beauty. She has an MFA from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of Utah, and teaches at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.