A collection of poems explores the human figure, defending its existence in reality against efforts to represent it by artificial means

The New Intimacy (National Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Cully, Barbara

United States

Penguin??Books

When Carolyn Forché chose Barbara Cully's first book, The New Intimacy, for the National Poetry Series, she wrote, "Cully is a poet reading the world for the brutality of its inequities, aware of the flattening compression of historical memory and the dissolution of the body." This new book offers a critique of the "heroic" that results in elegy and wisely offers no resolution. These poems point to the forms of faith as both genius and as the fount of much of the world's anguish. Such writing proceeds from the recognition of the end of irony; in it elegy has become, finally, all.

Desire Reclining (Poets, Penguin)

Poetry

Barbara Cully's poetics mix humor with a deadpan delivery, an aching love for all things tiny, the desire to face geology, the surreal, the built environment, and the horrors of human culture-with bravery. A style that treats beauty with elegy and is in love with all things: shoreline, desert, and ocean.Poet Boyer Rickel notes, "Barbara Cully's meditations in Back Apart range widely in subject and temperament: from ambushed troops in Afghanistan to the shorelines of her California youth, from Kristallnacht to our present ecological degradations. Driven by an unstable, seeking impulse, "the desire to look and to look away," the poems remain in flux, animated by a constant reckoning of self in history, in landscape, and especially among others."

Back Apart

Jackleg Press

A chapbook of prose poems by the award-winning Barbara Cully. Excerpt: When we finally become ourselves, we become a swinging door, that gray book told me, that sand bank told me. When the boss is sleeping, everyone is sleeping, that gray book told me, that hurry bird told me. Thus we have some idea of time (a little past noon), and some idea of place (Playa la Mision), a little bit of heaven told me, an absolute independence told me.

Shoreline Series

Kore Pr

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The New Intimacy (National Poetry Series)

Desire Reclining (Poets, Penguin)

Back Apart

Shoreline Series