BENDING THE MIND AROUND THE DREAM'S BLOWN FUSE

by Timothy Liu

Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Timothy Liu is too often reduced to being a poet of sexual audacity. He is audacious, but perhaps in his baroque architecture, his fluency, his intricacy, and his unwillingness to reduce himself by dogma or theory or design. I love his growing, growling work, and his violent soft hints about the whole body politic in progressive zooms. But the permanent, complicated delight is Liu's poetry uncontrollable melancholy and music"--David Shapiro. Timothy Liu is the other of seven other books of poetry, most recently POLYTHEOGAMY, also available from SPD. His poems have been translated into nine languages, and his papers and journals are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. He lives in Manhattan.

Genres: Poetry

90 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2009

Reviews

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is an aching beauty to these poems; the beauty that comes about only after the 'pain horizon' has been reached, and you see that there is still a way forward. I will definitely look for more books of Timothy Liu's poems - piercingly vibrant with the ebb and flow of life.

[Albert]

I had a class or two with the poet at William Paterson University, and that was partially my motivation in seeking out the book. Am a little disappointed on first gloss, but then I was also switching between this, My Vocabulary Did This to Me and Mommy Must Be A Mountain of Feathers. The latter are totally blowing my mind. There were a few poems I'd like to go back to. Maybe examples to come later.