Poetry. "Nothing needs us / but we need / a lot of reassurance / before we can reassure / those things we thought / we needed that they exist too"—from "Hinge." Wayne Koestenbaum writes of these spare lyrics: "Clean, clear, cool, quick: Elaine Equi's beautiful epigrams of refusal, entirely contemporary, exist at a blissful remove from the fatiguing. I learn a lot from them about how to live and write. I relish her mystic attentiveness to silence, and to the daily uncanny. She is at once an entertainer and an oracle: a winning combination. Evoking muses both literary—Wang Wei, Lorine Niedecker, Bartlett's Quotations, Frank O'Hara—and pop cultural—Armani, karaoke, shopping, porn—Equi writes poems that refuse to be sentimental while never refusing sentiment."

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Elaine Equi's last book RIPPLE EFFECT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and on the short list for Canada's Griffin Poetry Prize. She lives in New York.

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