{"id":2289,"date":"2013-08-21T18:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T18:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=2289"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:30:03","slug":"begging-for-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/begging-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Begging for It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 96 pages \u2022 15.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-26-0<\/p>\n

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Begging for It<\/em><\/h1>\n

Alex Dimitrov<\/h2>\n

Alex Dimitrov leads us through the streets, bridges, and bedrooms of New York City, sometimes as far away as Buenos Aires and Iceland, and as close as our own darkest corners. A Bulgarian immigrant, Dimitrov writes as both observer of and fervent participant in an \u201cAmerican youth,\u201d as his speakers navigate both the physical and emotional landscapes of desire, intimacy, and longing\u2014whether for a friend, a lover, or a self, \u201cSaint or stranger, I still recklessly seek you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the collection, we are consistently rooted in place: a seemingly American place, a New York place, an emotional space in which \u201cthe body becomes a cage you can\u2019t feel your way out of.\u201d In one poem, we meet Hart Crane at the St. Mark\u2019s Baths; in another, the speaker is reading Montaigne while a car crashes into the Gowanus Canal. Dimitrov invokes Rimbaud, Proust, Wilde, Barthes, Sontag, even James Franco. A contemporary coming-of-age in which the speakers are as much immersed in the present as they are plagued and enchanted by the past, this collection is very much alive. And even as Dimitrov assures us that \u201cwe were given more than we can drown,\u201d he warns, almost seductively: \u201cDon\u2019t worry. No one is spared.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Sensualism,” from Begging for It<\/em>:<\/p>\n

While lying in bed I think about sensualism.\nA mosquito presses into my skin\nwith such cruelty I mistake it for love.\n\nThe stranger above my window decides to jump \nand doesn't. Where was I? \nI was opening the door to your life \n\nand mine. We have some words \nfor each other and then what? \nWe have some nights in a city \n\nnext to an ocean filled with \nmore longing than we can describe. \nI want to place your hand close to the knife \n\nand let it sit there. I want more \nthan the cut or how we'll gently spill out. \nThe mosquito will drink \n\nfor as long as I'll let it. And I do. \nI hold still waiting for you. The vein rises. \nIt is this flood of living that comes.<\/pre>\n
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