Jillian Weise
Autor(a) de The Amputee's Guide to Sex
About the Author
Obras por Jillian Weise
Associated Works
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (2020) — Contribuidor — 585 exemplares
Fairy Tale Review: The Grey Issue — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Weise, Jillian
- Outros nomes
- The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Cy. Weise - Data de nascimento
- 1981-11-07
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Locais de residência
- Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- Educação
- University of Cincinnati (PhD - English)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MFA - Poetry)
Florida State University (BA - English and International Affairs) - Ocupações
- dichter
docent - Organizações
- Clemson University
Membros
Críticas
The Colony por Jillian Weise
Oddball characters. Acerbic wit. Insightful dialog laced with humor and sarcasm. Weird genetic manipulation. I enjoyed this a lot. Reminded me of a good Palahniuk novel in many ways.
½
Weise obviously spent time and attention to her vision of what this book should be. It strives to be experimental, a common aesthetic standard today. After Dada, experimental is a hard direction to go and still have something to communicate.
In sum, it may just be me, but this collection did not engage me, surprise me, or in any significant way cause me to reread. In fact, I skimmed many after the first few lines put me off.
In sum, it may just be me, but this collection did not engage me, surprise me, or in any significant way cause me to reread. In fact, I skimmed many after the first few lines put me off.
I admit that I'm generally skittish of poetry collections that have a clear over-arching idea to guide the full work, while still not being a narrative--too often, they're contrived and tiresome by halfway through. That, probably, is why it took me so long to read this wonderful collection. Fresh and intimate, this collection is both humorous and heartbreaking at the perfectly timed moments--the rhythms and language here are memorable and worth rereading, and the ideas are unique and accessable. As far as contemporary poetry collections go, this is a new favorite of mine, and one which I'll be rereading and recommending. If you're a reader of poetry, you should be reading Weise.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 172
- Popularidade
- #124,308
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 8
- ISBN
- 12