Mr. West (Wesleyan Poetry Series), by Sarah Blake
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Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West’s life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person’s public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake’s aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader’s companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.
Mr. West (Wesleyan Poetry Series), by Sarah Blake- Amazon Sales Rank: #471367 in Books
- Brand: Blake, Sarah
- Published on: 2015-03-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x .60" w x 6.30" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 132 pages
Review “As a work of literary nonfiction, the book conflates the life of the poet—who began the 46-poem cycle while she was pregnant and living in Havertown, PA—with the controversial superstar rapper.” —Peter Crimmins, WHYY - Newsworks
Review “Mr. West transforms the poet’s fascination with the rapper into an amazing group of poems that explores what she knows or can find out about West, alongside her own life. The poems construct West as unmistakably human and larger than life―as much like as unlike the poet. The work is tender without being sentimental, funny without being cruel, and obsessive without being exploitative. It is a study in nuance and it is strangely moving.” (Evie Shockley, author of the new black)“The plagiarism and copyright battles of the twenty-first century are the equivalent of the obscenity trials of the twentieth. If you’re not making art to be copied, you’re not really making art for the twenty-first century. Taking a page from Kanye West’s book, Sarah Blake embraces and enacts the long history of sharing and sampling from rap music, single-handedly and elegantly bringing poetry into the present moment. Media saturated & wildly musical, brilliantly original & stunningly plundered, this book is now.” (Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing)
About the Author SARAH BLAKE is the founder of the online writing tool Submittrs, an editor at Saturnalia Books, and a recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship. Her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Drunken Boat, FIELD, and The Threepenny Review. She lives outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Must Read By Beth Alison Maloney Not only is it great poetry but I learned so much about Kanye.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Unusual and brilliant By Glynn Young It may rank as one of the most unusual collections of poetry I’ve ever read. At first, I thought I was headed down the rabbit hole with Alice. Then the poems began to make a Wonderland kind of sense. And then the collection became something almost profound.I never would have thought I would have used the word “profound” in describing 46 poems written about rapper Kanye West (who may be equally famous as the husband of Kim Kardashian as he is for rap music).But that’s what poet Sarah Blake did. She wrote 46 poems as a kind of unauthorized biography of the singer. She wrote 46 poems that are also about her non-relationship with the singer. I suspect that’s why she entitled the collection "Mr. West" instead of something less formal.Apparently, Mr. West and his people were not pleased. Perhaps they didn’t understand what she did. Or perhaps they did.The poems are not a send-up or a satire. This is serious poetry. Blake employs one of the icons of popular culture and does what poets, good poets, are able to do. She makes us see something familiar in a very different, perplexing and ultimately uncomfortable way. In others words, she makes us see ourselves.The Week Kanye Joined TwitterWe find there are fewer dinosaurswhen we learn how the skulls age.Shifting horns, bones that thinand smooth, holes that form likesome desires do. Changes wecouldn’t anticipate, knowing mostlyour simple, fusing domes. You begin tweeting.I learn about your suits, videos,jets, pillows, the new words youpicked up overseas. You takea picture of your diamondand gold teeth. You make a jokeabout a crown so lovely I seeit on nymphs in daydreams. Sometimes I seemy curly head of hair outlined inthe morning dark and think I’mthe lovechild of actresses and lions.But today I see the functionalityof my face and not whetherI’m beautiful. I’m so very animal.I remember and flare my nostrils.Blake received a masters degree in creative writing from the University of Texas, and her masters of Fine Arts in Poetry from Penn State University. Her poetry has been published in the Michigan Quarterly Review, FIELD, Sentence, and The Threepenny Review. She’s editor of Saturnalia Books, poetry editor for MiPOesias, and co-founder of Submittrs. And she has a special passion for arts administration.Yes, the poems in "Mr. West" are about Kanye West. But they tell us more about ourselves, in this age of social media, instant celebrity, and being famous for being famous (Andy Warhol would have been fascinated with Kardashians, I think). We identify with the gods and goddesses of popular culture to an almost frightening degree. Their utterances are quotable and tweetable, and we quote them and tweet them. If they like a particular kind of food, then so do we. We imitate their fashion styles and their hairdos, and we listen worshipfully to their music.This is the culture Blake addresses in "Mr. West." She uses herself as our representative and she follows everything he’s doing while she herself is actually (and really) expecting a baby. His life and media clips become vicariously enmeshed with hers. And ours.Yes, the poems are about him, but they’re even more about us. The collection is brilliant.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Loved Every Word! By Tim Hall An awesome debut from a rising star poet! When it arrived three days ago, I immediately began reading the book and didn't put it down until I had read every word. I loved it! It's a compelling depiction of a pop icon from the keen perspective of an obvious fan, critical observer, and expectant mother. I think we're going to hear a lot about this book and its author over the coming months. The book is that good and that timely.
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