by Elaine Equi (Author)
In Surface Tension, the twentieth-century metroplex comes alive in poems which bounce off of the coating of culture that stretches across present-day America. Equi transforms language into a form of peripheral vision scanning the cultural landscape.
Author Biography
Elaine Equi, author of Click and Clone (Coffee House Press, 2011), was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in Chicago and its outlying suburbs. In 1988, she moved to New York City with her husband poet Jerome Sala. Over the years, her witty, aphoristic, and innovative work has become nationally and internationally known. Her last book, Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and on the short list for Canada's prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.
Among her other titles are
Surface Tension,
Decoy,
Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State University Poetry Center Award, and
The Cloud of Knowable Things. Widely published and anthologized, her work has appeared in the
New Yorker,
Poetry, the
American Poetry Review, the
Nation, and numerous volumes of
The Best American Poetry. She teaches at New York University, and in the MFA Programs at the New School and the City College of New York.
Number of Pages: 96
Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.91 x 6.02 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 1989
