Ange Mlinko, Author . Coffee House $15 (64p) ISBN 978-1-56689-177-6
The Brooklyn-based Mlinko (Matinées
) adds more lyricism and more depth to the Frank O'Hara– inspired verve of her much-noticed debut, and the result should raise even bigger waves. Verbal tumbles and linguistic curlicues play...
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Ange Mlinko. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-20314-6
Mlinko’s new book takes its title from a collection of ancient rumors about Mediterranean civilizations; it’s a triptych of descriptions interweaving the past with the present, echoing sometimes a ruminative Elizabeth Bishop, sometimes an elegantly...
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Ange Mlinko. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-24821-5
Mlinko (Marvelous Things Overheard) repurposes the archaic and deposits the mythic into a contemporary space, crafting glimmering poems of scrupulous linguistic intricacy that transcend time. In one she travels away from “the land/ of Dollar This,...
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Ange Mlinko, Author, Ange Mlino, Author Zoland Books $13 (128p) ISBN 978-1-58195-005-2
""Filling innocent pastry with rubies""--as in her masterfully askew poem ""Free Refill""--Mlinko is at the forefront of a wave of quirky, emotional gesturists currently turning New York City into an off-campus outpost of Brown University's MFA...
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Ange Mlinko. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 ISBN 978-0-374-60400-4
The ruminative sixth collection from Mlinko (Distant Mandate) opens on an epigraph from The American Scene by Henry James, yet Europe haunts these pages through myth, music, and art. Standing before a Roman sculpture, the poet reflects on a soprano’s
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Ange Mlinko. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-61317-4
Mlinko’s sonically rich latest (after Venice) draws on familial intimacy, loss, and the search for deeper understanding in poems that deal with the death of a mother and its generational impact: “my relatives/ changed their amphibrachic name to Bass.
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