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MATADORA
Poems
by Sarah Gambito
Alice James Books

ISBN: 1-882295-48-X
$13.95 (paper)

First published collection of Sarah Gambito, whose poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The New Republic, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals.

"In Sarah Gambito’s first book, a world is reborn and so to accommodate it the speaker assumes just so many multiple elations, all of them daughters and sisters of the things of the world. These poems fly in from other countires. They blur the speed of prayers with alt.rock lyrics. In the poems continents reverse themselves as if drifting in amniotic fluid, lines of lineage re-emerge and voices in other languages adopt themselves to various new forms of speech. The speaker arrives from time to time. She is like snow. She takes short holidays. She smiles at birthday cards. She can eat anything that doesn’t criticize her. Some of her ex-lovers were not teenagers. She flits from Tagalog to East Villagese. She has a halogen stereo and waits for 'my late great Chachi.' She goes to clubs and raw bars and a street in Tagaytay. She tries on her butterfly kite. Through all this, she is the breathless sum of her various accoutrements: crystal and sea-egg, a borealis, a lamp, a holidaypipe, a Paloma, a sister. A beautiful book."—Tan Lin

Read more about Sarah Gambito in http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/matadora.html

(Publisher's release)

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