Elaine Equi – författare

Whether celebrating clones or revising Led Zeppelin, Equi melds verse with aphorism, wisdom with wicked playfulness."—Entertainment Weekly

Equi''s poems are under the breath asides from your cleverest friend—witty, thoughtful, and wry.

SLIGHT

A slight impliesif not an insult(real or imagined)at least somethingunpleasant --a slight cold,a slight headache.No one ever says:"You make me slightly happy."Although this, in fact,is often the case.

Widely published and anthologized, Elaine Equi''s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Nation, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry.

Equi’s poems insist that despite the fact that most of our everyday reality has been rendered accountable and computable, there is still a region of experience that escapes our GPS-mapped consciousness—an intangible realm where poetry is still possible.

“We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud.”From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. “Thoughtful, witty, curious” (The New York Times), Equi’s subversive voice delicately refracts human experiences from the colors of weather to the strange ways we make sense of our bodies, from the emptiness of family homes to the flow of time itself.