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Advice for Lovers: City Lights Spotlight #7(City Lights Spotlight)


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About the Book

Inspired by Ovid's instructional Ars Amatoria, with overtones of Renaissance sonnet cycles, Advice for Lovers is a highly wrought volume of poems. Intricately formal but saucy and contemporary in diction, Advice for Lovers walks a fine line between the anything-goes orthography of the Elizabethans and the shifting etymologies of James Joyce. Sexy, kinky, disquieting, Advice for Lovers blazes an erotic trail into the twenty-first century. "What if I'm spirited away to live in a torch song?-Where the landscape is a lover's discourse? Julian Talamantez Brolaski has me in thrall! In this enchanting book, Julian jacks up the artifice and jacks up the feeling." Robert Glck "Advice for Lovers is the type of book that makes you see language with fresh eyes, challenging you toward something fiercer and more honest yet. It leaves you bruised and aching to be bruised again, and isn't that what you were asking for after all?" -The Rumpus Author of gowanus atropolis (2011) and editor at Aufgabe and Litmus Press, Julian Talamantez Brolaski studied with Nathaniel Mackey, Elizabeth Willis, and Robert Hass. Xe rejects gendered pronouns and lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at The New School.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Advices I am My Own Big Brother...……………………………………………………………....9 Discipulum Amoris………………………………………………………………………10 What to Do When Your Muse Becomes Your Lover……………………………………11 On How to Transform an Imaginary into an Actual Lover……………………………...12 The Real………………………………………………………………………………….13 Instructions for a Lover…………………………………………………………………..14 On Not Being Able to Perceive Angels………………………………………………….15 On How to Transfigure the Body Utterly………….…………………………………….16 Haterz Gossip…………………………………………………………………………….17 On How to Address Your Lover………………………………………………………...18 On How to Blazon Your Lover………………………………………………………….19 The Sweet Science of Bruising………………………………………………………….20 Re: How Do You Figure…………………………………………………………………21 Sloughing off the Gentlemanly Sports…………………………………………………..22 Count Yclept……………………………………………………………………………..23 Sea Aloe Song...………………………………………………………………………….24 Nautitorium………………………………………………………………………………25 Aloha Cum Yakuza: Of a Friend that had got Sublimida………………………………..26 The Philistine Smitten……………………………………………………………………27 Ba Ba Aubade……………………………………………………………………………28 Deep Image: To Venus.………...………………………………………………………..29 The Wheel of Sheep……………………………………………………………………...30 The Real, Purchased on Credit, Does Not Lie Back……………………………………..31 Open Letter from the Libertine…………………………………………………………..32 To Paris, Begging Boy…………………………………………………………………...33 Malediction to the Terrormonger…………………………………………………….......34 I Knocked all Tales………………………………………………………………………35 You Can’t Freak to Frank ……………….………………………………………………36 The Sweet Science of Bruising in Foamy Greek (The Poet Curses Love)………………37 My Love of the Silv’ry Thigh……………………………………………………………38 Sibyl Song...……………………………………………………………………………...39 The Perfect Love Poem Tutorial…………………………………………………………40 How to Brag to Your Lover……………………………………………………………...41 The Art of Love as Converse…………………………………………………………….42 What to Say Upon Being Asked to be Friends……...…………………………………...43 Songs of Love of Grief…………………………………………………………………..44 On How to Leave Your Lover…………………………………………………...………45 Nudisms Invocation to Spicer……….……………………………………………………………..47 The Urchin……………………………………………………………………………….48 Helen Excluded from Heaven…………………………………………………………...49 The Orphic Nude………………………………………………………………………...50 Year of the Misfit………………………………………………………………………..51 Ricky Martin on Homosexuality…………………………………………………………52 Re: Live! Virtuous! Redux! ……………………………………………………………..53 Dido to Aeneas, Having Left the Cave ………………………………………………….54 Aestus erat, mediamque dies exegerat horam……………………………………………55 Hot Noon, summer had reached its languid height………………………………………56 Venus Favors the Bold…………………………………………………………………...57 Fuck Me Harder…………..……………………………………………………………...58 A Glorious Array of Diphthongs Suddenly Extends My Evening………………………59 Complaint to Corinna………………………………………………………………….....60 Eating th’Asteroid………………………………………………………………………..61 Lenten is Come with Love to Toune……………………………………………………..62 Song in the Shade..…………………………………………..…………………………...65 Nobaude: the Belle Lettrist’s Idea of Billet-Doux ……………………………………...66 Richard Coeur de Lion, or, the Chapeau Will Out………………………………………67 Complaint to the Ladies of Leisure………………………………………………………68 Poem in Which the Lover is Addressed………………………………………………….69 Crunk Apparent…………………………………………………………………………..70 Faggot Love Songs………………………………………………………………………71 Amorosa Erranza………………………………………………………………………...72 The Moon Responds to a Charge that It is Cooling.………………………………….....73 Re: Dizzy Cranium………………………………………………………………………74 Song of Songs Sonnet……………………………………………………………………75 Rime……………………………………………………………………………………...76 A Poem of Petrarke to His Skull…………………………………………………………77 Our Love Isn’t Dependent on Foreign Oil……………………………………………….78 Anxiety of the Bullfight………………………………………………………………….80 Lowing the Lay of the Land……………………………………………………………...81 Cor, blimey!.......…………………………………………………………………………82 Notes……………………………………………………………………………………..83

About the Author :
Julian T. Brolaski and an editor at Aufgabe and Litmus Press. Xe studied with Nathaniel Mackey (UCSC), Elizabeth Willis (Mills), and Robert Hass (Berkeley). Julian lives in Brooklyn, curates vaudeville shows, and plays country music with Juan & the Pines. Xe teaches at the New School.

Review :
"In this aesthetically audacious collection of poems, Julian Talamantez Brolaski offers xir 'advice to lovers' in unabashedly voluptuous language. This is dithyrambic verse, variously festive and feisty, impudent and sad. It is beautiful, but never serene. And how could it be? The difference between 'seeing to' and 'singing to' is not large, and everything in this book suggests that to advise is to love. In giving it, Julian exercises xir native tongue with linguistic amorousness over a wide range of poetic registers. Guidance has never been this much fun; jouissance has never been smarter." --Lyn Hejinian "'The cure for love is more love,' and the cure for the languishing lyric lies in the architecture of these poems. Julian Talamantez Brolaski's Advice for Lovers builds 'upon the ponderous page' new structures for our most lustful and deviant acts. A highly intelligent form of re-purposed 16-century gestures that rouses the reading body, again and again." --Renee Gladman "The Advice for Lovers poems are less to do with word-creation and more to do with wordplay. They are obedient to the conceit which is their title / which is to say that they are a manual for use by lovers / before during and after the event(s) of love... His sense of love is playful and lustful and full." --Alan Davis, The Poetry Foundation "The stylized writing in Advice for Lovers leaps from off the page with a rarefied finesse. Brolaski adopts a modeled tone so distinctly and completely unique, so purposely unfashionable in its daring and erudite deportment that it will leave readers reeling." --The Volta "Advice for Lovers effectively and provocatively broadens love poetry's lineage. Here is T.S. Eliot's call for invention through and not against literary history. However, Advice for Lovers offers something other than Eliot's mere filing system formulation of history that, while always complete, is also altered when the new settles beside the old. Instead, Brolaski's book is a festive mixer and everyone who is a lover is invited to the party... Advice for Lovers is a celebration of form--the poem's, the lover's and beloved's body, the pronoun--as transformative pleasure and literary invention."--BOMB "Sensuous in dawn, daylight, dusk and night, Julian's new book Advice for Lovers is a primrose-rich , self-indicating rite of passage that in order to progress, must pass well through itself." --Big Other "[A] book with power, scope, and dedication to sexuality and 'Love, that god among goddesses' ... There's much to gush over." --The Bay Area Reporter "The copy tags the work 'sexy, kinky, disquieting ... blazes an erotic trail.' And it does so with a pervasive humor that does not make light of but rather sinks the moment deeper into the psyche, where sex, pain, longing and humor all hang out. I'm so into this book!"--Michelle Tea


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780872865815
  • Publisher: City Lights Books
  • Publisher Imprint: City Lights Books
  • Height: 177 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: City Lights Spotlight #7
  • Width: 139 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0872865819
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jun 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: City Lights Spotlight
  • Weight: 127 gr


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