Armor, Amour by Amy Pence
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Amy Pence's second collection thrives on both contradiction and expansion. Her short works, comprising two-thirds of the poems in the book, fulfill Blake's call for "Eternity in a grain of sand," while the longer pieces--rangy, kinetic, meticulously shaped--follow Mallarme's throw of the dice into new and eye-opening frontiers. Pence's poetic world is simultaneously a "Tender, small universe" and a "red sac torn open," and Armor, Amour forcefully captures these conversant facets of her imagination.
--Gregory Fraser, author of Answering the Ruins
Equally at ease with pop culture, Greek philosophy, a sleeping cock, and Bach's Partita No. 3, Amy Pence reconfigures the lyric, the body, and language itself.
--Jillian Wiese, author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex
Armor, Amour rejects all seamlessness, soullessness. In reading, we do not "glide past earth's fierce and mythic wreckage": we must, by way of the poem, go in--to an interior where dangerous secrets seed themselves and a beast chambers. But Pence, both ingenious and generous, breaks us out as well. I am grateful for these poems, dark & glittering.
--Kate Northrop, author of Clean
--Gregory Fraser, author of Answering the Ruins
Equally at ease with pop culture, Greek philosophy, a sleeping cock, and Bach's Partita No. 3, Amy Pence reconfigures the lyric, the body, and language itself.
--Jillian Wiese, author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex
Armor, Amour rejects all seamlessness, soullessness. In reading, we do not "glide past earth's fierce and mythic wreckage": we must, by way of the poem, go in--to an interior where dangerous secrets seed themselves and a beast chambers. But Pence, both ingenious and generous, breaks us out as well. I am grateful for these poems, dark & glittering.
--Kate Northrop, author of Clean
