"Equi is that rarity--someone with natural comic talent who is also capable of delicacy and lyricism."--David Lehman, Newsday

Surface Tension

Literature & Fiction

Equi, Elaine

Poetry

Coffee House Press

Accessories

Figures

Friendship with Things

The Figures

In the fall of 1999, Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet produced, along with master printer Maurice Sanchez, a monotype project entitled The Varick Series. Zandvliet, one of the most talented and innovative painters of his generation, specializes in landscape painting.

Robert Zandvliet: The Varick Series: Monotypes

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Peter Blum Edition, New York

Views Without Rooms

Hanuman Books

A delightful collection of 43 contemporary poems about popular culture

The Corners of the Mouth

Iridescence

Subversive and witty, Equi adeptly slips around corners and peers through keyholes, ultimately proving that the best poems take us by surprise. "Exceedingly delicate work, infused with a sly and bawdy humor.... leaves the reader eager for more.... one of the most enjoyable and rewarding books of poetry."--The Nation

Decoy (Sun and Moon Classics; 44)

Synthesizing twenty years of influencess, Equi constructs a collage of voices--undoubtedly American, exquisitely her own.

Voice-Over

"Friend to objects, saints and dead celebrities alike, Elaine Equi is the real McCoy: a keeper of the sacred flame of language-joy. Her work re-alerts us to our earliest love of words as toys, jewels, confections. In doing so she juices up our thinking. What’s better than writing that delights as it sharpens the mind? You’ve heard of ‘smart drinks’ or ‘smart drugs,’ said to chemically boost intellect? These are truly smart poems."—Amy Gerstler, L.A. Weekly
Elaine Equi is the author of many books, including Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award. Widely anthologized, her poems appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and The Best American Poetry for the years 1989, 1995, and 2002. She lives in New York City.

The Cloud of Knowable Things

“Elaine Equi’s narrow lines are like the rungs of a ladder that one ascends while one is descending them. It’s a motion like that in Wang Wei’s lines, ‘Stars / float up / toward dawn,’ which she quotes in her cento, ‘Wang Wei’s Moon.’ Or, as she beautifully puts it, ‘Discreetly a breeze enters the room.’”—John Ashbery
 Ripple Effect showcases thirty years of Elaine Equi’s investigations into our cultural obsessions. Vivid, savvy, and accessible, her poems can transform almost anything—a list, a diary entry, advertising speak—into sophisticated, germane elixirs of pop culture and high art. Widely published, these poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry.

Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems

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