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Begging For It (2013)

by Alex Dimitrov(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1935536265 (ISBN13: 9781935536260)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Four Way Books

review 1: I longed for more range--reaching into a higher register, say, or less focus on beds and hotel rooms. Some of my favorite parts:The world is not ending todayso it's important to stay in it.Reader, are you upset at how fast we're moving?This poem wants you to like it,please click "like."Why do teeth survive the body?Tonight, I am the star of a surgerywhere each organ is weighed in their hands.
review 2: This book received a four star rating from me because Dimitrov included a poem about James Franco, and I really wish he hadn't (kidding, mostly). Otherwise, this is a remarkable debut from a young writer who is very well connected with the big names in poetry--Anne Carson, Marie Howe, Frank Bidart.I will say that I am looking forward to his forthcoming publicatio... morens moreso than I enjoyed reading this book; his recent poems printed in the Poetry magazine and available to read online at the poetry foundation website are what drew me to his work and the poems in this collection are quite honestly not as strong as what he's working on right now. "Lines for People After the Party" is absolutely one of the best poems that I have read this year and it's why I went and bought this book online as soon as I could. Unfortunately, that poem and "Together and by Ourselves" are both recently published works and not included in this collection.Regardless, Dimitrov stands out as a writer for his syntactical abilities, extraordinary voice, and emotional precision. He employs a dissociation from the self in such a way as to bring greater clarity back to the kinds of metaphysical questions that unsettle our basic conceptions of identity. For those reasons, I'm reminded a little of Olena Kalytiak Davis' first collection of poetry--And Her Soul Out of Nothing--which was awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry in '97 when Rita Dove was judging. It takes a lot to elicit from me a comparison with that book which is hands down my favorite book of poetry.Overall, highly recommended. less

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