Obscenely Yours

**San Francisco Book Festival 2013, Honorable Mention** **26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist** “This is not just a great first book but a great book. Period.” —*The Kenyon Review Online* “*Obscenely Yours* lives up to its title. . . Virtually every poem in this book explores the body and its grim needs, but this theme never becomes monotonous. . . . Angelo Nikolopoulos is clearly a poet of the soul every bit as much as a poet of the body.” —*The Antioch Review* “. . .what Nikolopoulos is about here is not (or not only) the pain of knowledge, but its pleasure, and not of knowledge merely, but of experience. And if indecency abounds, as indeed it does, these poems are about the resolute refusal to repress it, indeed, the commitment to insisting upon it. It is this insistence to which the book’s title ultimately gestures, convinced that its minutely enumerated indecencies belong not only to the poet, but to the reader as well, not obscenely mine only but also obscenely yours.” —*Coldfront Magazine* “[*Obscenely Yours* has] a broad daylight kind of sexuality that is presented tenderly, experimentally, sardonically, in a way that is completely original and yet must also be read as an homage to a generation of gay poets that came before it.” —*Los Angeles Review of Books* “Nikolopoulos writes the poems that lurk in all of us. . .” —*GayLetter* “[Obscenely Yours] examines the anxiety of a normalized queer experience. . . . If it isn’t obvious, Nikolopoulos has no reservations about talking about the body nor getting dirty with it.” —*BOMBlog* “Angelo Nikolopoulos’ debut collection is a masterfully lyrical tribute to gay sexuality. . . [*Obscenely Yours*] is not defiant, but celebratory, as excited about the pleasures of language as the pleasures of the body.” —*Lambda Literary Review* “Nikolopoulos’ poems read as highly sophisticated, choreographed events—scenes, if you will. The first section of *Obscenely Yours*. . . encourages us to envision [his] poems as cinematic spectacles. Love is like that, cinematic, that is.” —*Bookslut* “Nikolopoulos’ debut is careful, sexy. . . . The body, its ecstasy and its shame, is this poet’s obsession, and he observes it with a straightforward awe.” —*Publishers Weekly* “Dynamic and dead-on, these poems speak to the urge, the threat, the violent appetite of desire. They also do the hard work of unraveling the question of love—the thing we ‘take on faith…lightly,’ that asks everything and promises only we ‘are not dead.’

שנה

2013

שפה

English

הוצאה

Alice James Books

מהדורות

1

עמודים

75

ISBN

9781882295999

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata