Knock Knock
Knock Knock chronicles the odd and unnerving, the beautiful and tragicomic--the lyrical in everyday life. Poems are inquisitive, introspective, erotic, sharp.
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Knock Knock chronicles the odd and unnerving,the beautiful and tragicomic—the lyrical ineveryday life. Poems are inquisitive, introspective,erotic, sharp.Publishers WeeklyHartley's first book is full of appetite and steeped in European culture--it will make you want to book a one-way ticket to Paris or Naples. Hartley is always attentive to sound, her poems carefully worded but not overwrought; even the table of contents reads like a poem: "The Sorceress of the Russian Sauna," "Sleeping with War and Peace." By turns sexy and wry, Hartley (the Paris editor of Tin House) reminds us that it "takes time and careful attention/ to pluck, savor and suck out / your breathtaking core," but also, in "Advice for the Hirsute," that "you can only wax your crotch so long before finally, finally / the hair creeps back like dark widow's weeds." She treats hunger as a source of humor, delighting in mistranslated menus--"filet of duck with gentle fruit sauce . . . a duet of three pairs"--but also as means of grieving, questioning, and coping: "is it bad luck to eat the salami of a dead man?" Underneath the wit of Hartley's work, there is something probing, as if she is seeking to lay the sad world bare: "I've written all over the city in these black boots." (June)
This is a fugue for the lost art of aching.\ Artichoke Horoscope The Karma Club Knock Knock Full Pleather Moon Drip Nudes in a New England Barn To My One Love's Letter Advice for the Hirsute\ New Year's in Napoli: Twenty-four Resolutions and Curses The Cardboard Confidante of the Camorra The Madonnas of Montepertuso Elegy for Napoli This heart was made for stomping--think twice, yous too.\ The Amazing Madame Barba of Montepertuso Partner, my partner\ The Sorceress of the Russian Sauna Sleeping with War and Peace Cul-de-sac Our Lady of the Russian Baths Rhapsody in Blue in Front of a Statue of Alexander Pushkin The Prix-fixe in Petersburg\ Epilogue in a City Garden The Flying Machine, or Elegy for the Twentieth Century La Bete humaine Broad Strokes in a Wine Bar Pledge The Bibliotheque nationale Soiree with Shark Suicide The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium\ Rapunzel on an Ironing Board In a Train Tunnel Director of the Feast Decoupage and the Dark Experiment For Death and the Maiden Epithalamium Postcard Home Postscript by a Park Bench Sweet Woodruff\ Elegy in India Ink
\ Publishers WeeklyHartley's first book is full of appetite and steeped in European culture--it will make you want to book a one-way ticket to Paris or Naples. Hartley is always attentive to sound, her poems carefully worded but not overwrought; even the table of contents reads like a poem: "The Sorceress of the Russian Sauna," "Sleeping with War and Peace." By turns sexy and wry, Hartley (the Paris editor of Tin House) reminds us that it "takes time and careful attention/ to pluck, savor and suck out / your breathtaking core," but also, in "Advice for the Hirsute," that "you can only wax your crotch so long before finally, finally / the hair creeps back like dark widow's weeds." She treats hunger as a source of humor, delighting in mistranslated menus--"filet of duck with gentle fruit sauce . . . a duet of three pairs"--but also as means of grieving, questioning, and coping: "is it bad luck to eat the salami of a dead man?" Underneath the wit of Hartley's work, there is something probing, as if she is seeking to lay the sad world bare: "I've written all over the city in these black boots." (June)\ \
