The Range of Your Amazing Nothing
by Lina ramona Vitkauskas
"Lina ramona Vitkauskas’ poetry is richly textured and layered, a
palimpsest pleasure. In THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING, Ashbery
and Superman, Lorca and Jacqueline Bisset, Nancy (the comic strip character)
and Forrest Gander all coexist and inform her most amazing verse. While
the bright surface of her poetry employs humor and kitsch, the dazzling
underside confronts intolerance and terrorism with a wise brilliance."
—Denise Duhamel, author of Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press)
"It is strange to occupy the world of Lina ramona Vitkauskas’ poems,
a world where beef takes nebulous forms, Jacques Derrida and Batman speculatively
coincide, where cumin forms into fists, where W.H. Auden sets things on
fire, while Sartre cowboys ride into a present tense that combines the Handmaid’s
Tale with mad science with the meaningful meaningless dialogue of
politics and propaganda. But while these poems are filled with wild
images, they are also subtle in their devious shifts and proclamations. The
dream capsules of amazing nothings of this book are, to paraphrase Wallace
Stevens, both there and not there. These poems are fun, soothingly
frantic, and optimistically generous."
—Daniel Borzutsky, author of Arbitrary Tales (Ravenna Press)
"Inside these drunk, ridiculous, and belligerently interesting
poems are pre-Aeneid rocket people, Sartre cowboys, and orgasms under trench
coats. Vitkauskas uses savage invention, the hook of good fiction, and
the everyday and insane in poem after poem that go headlong over the edge. But
— all the everything aside — something is at stake and you will
laugh and you will be disturbed and you will be seized into an entirely
new galaxy of poetry."
— Fred Sasaki, assistant editor of Poetry
May be ordered from the Ravenna Press.
The Range of Your Amazing Nothing by Lina ramona
Vitkauskas
123 pages, 8.3 x 5.3 © 2010
Cloth $14.95
ISBN-10: 0982211562