Glitter City

by Bonnie Jill Emanuel

Overview

Like glitter-tiny, precision-cut, reflective particles-the poems in Glitter City shine by reflection with flashes of light. Narrative, cinematic, and at times trance-like, the poems trace their way back in time. From Fulton Street, Brooklyn to Detroit's Woodward Avenue, over city scaffolds and rural fields, across graveyards and weedy highways, Emanuel's debut collection grieves and loves, glittering fiercely.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781960329325
Publisher:	Cornerstone Press
Publication date:	02/05/2024
Pages:	78
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

Bonnie Jill Emanuel's poetry appears in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and other publications. She holds an MFA from The City College of New York where she received the Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Creative Writing, and the Irwin and Alice Stark Poetry Prize. Born in Detroit, she now lives in New York.

Editorial Reviews

"In the spare, intense, searching, sometimes sidelong poems of Glitter City, Emanuel writes in burst after burst of light, her images and insights accruing into seriously dazzling designs of illumination."

-David Groff, author of Live in Suspense

"When you read these poems, you feel them in your body. You feel these beauties everywhere in the physical matter of your being. Bonnie Jill Emanuel's poems glitter."

-Matthew Lippman, author of We Are Sleeping with Our Sneakers On

"Bonnie Jill Emanuel's eye for texture and surprising insights in poem after poem mean she is always listening."

-Sean Singer, author of Today In The Taxi

"In poem after nimble poem, Glitter City is that rarity--a true and sustained pleasure to read."

-Elaine Sexton, author of Drive

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