Your Ten Favorite Words
by Reb Livingston (Goodreads author!)
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone who enjoys the fun of love
Your Ten Favorite Words by Reb Livingston / Coconut Books / 978-0-6151-6182-2 / 75pps / $?
Reb Livingston knows how to have a good time and in this saucy collection of poems, she expounds on a few recollections with the same jazzy fun that probably caused them. I like her obvious enjoyment of words, how she teases them into a poem then has her way with them.
In the poem “Almost Took A Lover Once”, she boasts “(he was pleasing, so pleasing, he fissured my mind)”... And much the...more
Reb Livingston knows how to have a good time and in this saucy collection of poems, she expounds on a few recollections with the same jazzy fun that probably caused them. I like her obvious enjoyment of words, how she teases them into a poem then has her way with them.
In the poem “Almost Took A Lover Once”, she boasts “(he was pleasing, so pleasing, he fissured my mind)”... And much the...more
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Read in January, 2008
(I usually dislike it when male critics use words like "saucy" to describe a woman's book of poetry, but nonetheless:)
Rebecca Livingston's collection (from Coconut Books) of flirtatious, saucy, edgy-with-a-LangPo-twist poems provides portraits of an American woman coming to terms with her country, her lovers, her culture, and yes, her words and herself. Read to entertain yourself, to take a look inside Livingston's fun-house mirror, reflections of the tawdry and tender.
An excerpt f...more
Rebecca Livingston's collection (from Coconut Books) of flirtatious, saucy, edgy-with-a-LangPo-twist poems provides portraits of an American woman coming to terms with her country, her lovers, her culture, and yes, her words and herself. Read to entertain yourself, to take a look inside Livingston's fun-house mirror, reflections of the tawdry and tender.
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I've only read Reb's stuff in small bits so far, so it's really nice to see how the voice in these poems accumulates into this larger exploration of language's role in eroticism, female-ness, relationship, among other things. I'm interested in how "stutter" and self-correction wordplay play a role in the voice she's creating here. It's a voice that's very conscious of the word, of course, and it opens up these fabulous spaces within the lines that still manage to be tight and economica
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It's my book and I'll give it 5 stars if I want to.
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Read in January, 2008
sharp tongued and delicious.
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