The City She Was
by Carmen Giménez Smith
University Press of Colorado, 2011
eISBN: 978-1-885635-23-5 | Paper: 978-1-885635-19-8
Library of Congress Classification PS3607.I45215C58 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
eISBN: 978-1-885635-23-5 | Paper: 978-1-885635-19-8
Library of Congress Classification PS3607.I45215C58 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of three collections of poetry, Odalisque in Pieces (University of Arizona Press, 2009), The City She Was (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011)and Goodbye, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012) and a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds (University of Arizona Press, 2010). She is the recipient of a Juniper Prize for poetry and a fellowship from the Howard Foundation for creative nonfiction. She is the publisher of Noemi Press, the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol, and an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writing at New Mexico State University.
REVIEWS
"When you open this book, expect serious role-playing and syntactic tap dancing. The City She Was presents a world that brings 'the horizon line into your lexicon' and a poet's muse ('The Endangered You') is lent to a friend and returned 'a little more frayed.' Giménez Smith muddles and enchants with her many masks, leaving the ground a little less stable under our feet."
—Matthea Harvey, author of Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
—Matthea Harvey, author of Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
"The human body has only five senses but The City She Was reroutes the architecture of experience so effectively that the reader is awarded a new unnamed sense, a soft power, one that reprioritizes our outdated reality with the gathering infrastructure of the geography of language. The whole aggressive world is this book's only enemy, and no one tricks absurdity into form, reality into abstraction, injustice into stylized verdict, and contemporary popular culture into a useful, heroic trap of surreal-her-wholeness like Carmen Giménez Smith."
—Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of Skin, Inc. and The Maverick Room
—Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of Skin, Inc. and The Maverick Room
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
One
For About Five Minutes in the Aughts
Pills
The Walk
Vita
Museum of Lost Acquaintance
The City She Was
Bleeding Heart
Division
Two
The Science of Parting
Beauty Regimen
The Grand Tour
Pageant of Scrutiny
The Skeptic
In-Between Elegy
The Endangered You
Stockholm Syndrome
Lunatics on My Avenue
Let Down My Bucket
Bay Bridge Abstraction
The If of Omission
Civilizing Mission
Smaller, Quieter
Red Baroness
Three
Mistakes Were Made
My Fire and Fever Fussy
Soft Power
Ars Amatoria
The Terms
Don’t Get Out Much Anymore
Rival
My Open Sesame
Redaction
Under a Wan Sun
Malaprops
Sometimes There’s a Virgin
These Halting Plaints
Don’t I Disappear
My Hegemony
Anodyne
To My Book
Notes
Acknowledgments
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