{"id":3246,"date":"2013-08-28T17:06:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3246"},"modified":"2022-12-22T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:20:46","slug":"ignatz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/ignatz\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignatz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 84 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-01-7<\/p>\n

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Ignatz<\/em><\/h1>\n

Monica Youn<\/h2>\n

Finalist for the\u00a02010 National Book Award in Poetry<\/em><\/p>\n

Ignatz<\/em> takes the form of a cycle of love poems\u2014in radical variations\u2014based on Ignatz Mouse, the rodent anti-hero and love-object of George Herriman’s classic comic strip Krazy Kat. For decades, Krazy Kat rang the changes on a quirky theme of unrequited love: cat loves mouse; mouse hates cat; mouse hits cat with brick; cat mistakes brick for love; and so on, day after day. The backgrounds of the strip were in constant inexplicable flux: a desiccated specimen of Arizona flora morphs in the next panel into a crescent moon, then into a snowcapped butte, while the characters chatted obliviously on, caught up in their own obsessive round.<\/p>\n

Moving through pacy, overflowing sentences, enigmatic aphoristic observations, and pointed imagistic vignettes, Youn\u2019s second collection vividly captures the way the world reorients around an object of desire: the certainty that your lover \u201cwill appear in the west, backlit by orange isinglass,\u201d the ability to intuit a lover\u2019s presence from the way \u201cunseen flutes \/ keep whistling the curving phrases of your body.\u201d Youn skillfully draws on the repeating narrative motifs and haunting landscapes of Krazy Kat as she tests and surpasses the limits of lyric to explore the cyclical elements of romanticized love. Youn speaks to and with her poetic forbears, whether St. John Perse, whose phrase \u201crobed in the loveliest robe of the year\u201d (T.S. Eliot\u2019s translation) recurs in several love songs to Ignatz<\/em>, or Geoffrey Hill, whose Mercian Hymns<\/em> these poems recall in their serial structure and their commingling of the contemporary and classical. Ignatz<\/em> is a poignant foray into the inventive possibilities of obsession and passion.<\/p>\n

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