Poetry. HIATUS explores the fascinating, frustrating, often tragic, and sometimes comic "gap" between words and world, human being and human being, and the human species and its cosmic setting. At times writing "between the lines" of older traditions, at others opening new spaces for writing to inhabit, Reilly has created a book that is both playful and scholarly. Leslie Scalapino describes HIATUS as "a social comedy by lines delineating contrasting roles interior and exterior." Elaine Equi applauds its "intentionally wayward and witty poems." Rachel Blau DuPlessis calls it "a way of working through life's multiplicities in inventive, particular and discerning language." HIATUS was a semi-finalist for the Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the National Poetry Series.

Hiatus

Literature & Fiction

Reilly, Evelyn

Poetry

Barrow Street Press

Poetry. "A vast Sargasso sea of plastic fragments the size of a continent has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. How do we go about living in what Evelyn Reilly defines as 'our infinite plasticity prosperity plentitude' and still have room for poetry? STYROFOAM might just show us how to do this. It's a wonderful, mad, challenging itinerary"--John Ashbery. Her previous books include HIATUS, which was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, and the chapbook Fervent Remnants of Reflective Surfaces.

Styrofoam

Roof Books

Poetry. "Evelyn Reilly's APOCALYPSO floats a cobbled kind of futurist voyage that moves by belief and uncovered loss to quickly deliver an overwhelming sensation (allegory) that as in Tarkovsky's Solaris we are on this journey too and have no hope (and want none) of getting off it. Turning these pages we discover that the museum of the future is a ship and Evelyn Reilly is scribbling our fate."—Eileen Myles "Who, if I cried out, would hear me amid the mechanic orders? Well, if you listen closely, faint yet clear signals are being emitted from Evelyn Reilly's APOCALYPSO wherein fragments of information technologies now dispersed in the ether create haunting assemblages of ourselves. Fascinating!"—Marjorie Welish

Apocalypso

Poetry. "ECHOLOCATION refreshes one's sense of the thrilling necessity of poetry. Dedicated to 'all those who navigate by sound in the dark,' it is meant for an 'us' that includes the whale, the bat, the frog, the river, as well as our multifarious, ardently curious, startlingly ingenious human Selves. Reilly's tour-de-force opening suite of poems is conducted, with her uniquely grave humor, like a lepidopterist's outing in the Anthropocene: spotting, not netting, paradoxical fragilities of metamorphic selves and echoes of selves attempting to locate one another."--Joan Retallack

Echolocation

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Styrofoam

Apocalypso

Echolocation