Poetry by Ange Mlinko
April 1, 2010 6 x 9 82 pages 978-1-56689-243-8
Exacting, virtuosic lyrics on surviving tough times.
With a title that plays upon shouldering ones burden, this equally fanciful and hard-hitting collection captures the uncertainties and economic turmoil of 21st century life, where the mind might still be a little spa, but the future is hedged against the / boys who died. Like the New Yorker said of her last collection, [Mlinkos] intoxicating, cerebral poems display a unique sense of humor and mystery.
About the Author
Ange Mlinko, born in Philadelphia and a longtime New York resident, is the author of Starred Wire and Shoulder Season and now lives in Beirut. She writes a regular column on language for the Nation and in 2009, she received the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism from the Poetry Foundation. Poems from this collection have appeared in the Nation, New Yorker, London Review of Books, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere.