Chora, Sandra Doller

Chora

Sandra Doller

Publisher: Ahsahta Press
PubDate: 3/15/2010
ISBN: 9781934103128
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $17.50
Quantity Available: 42
Pages: 128
 

Poetry. Sandra Doller's tricky, sly language comes at you sideways, full of coinages and puns, and is obsessed with lines: the highways and train tracks that cross deserts; lines from jokes and ghost stories; and lines of influence—Gertrude Stein implicitly, and H.D. explicitly. Doller is not concerned with the complete or the perfect; she shows us the torn edge of notebook paper, "the american wastrel" in a yellow dress, and characters who plead, in a reversal of Goethe's last words, for "no more light."

Author City: Los Angeles, CA USA

Sandra Doller (née Miller) is the author of three books: ORIFLAMME (Ahsahta Press, 2005), CHORA (Ahsahta Press, 2010), and MAN YEARS (Subito Press, 2011). Doller is the founder and editrice of 1913, a magazine and press carried by Small Press Distribution. She lives all over with her man, Ben Doller, and their creatures.

Reviews and Other Links
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright in The Brooklyn Rail
Books Noted @ Poets.org




“CHORA plays synaesthetic musics, grows margins of vines. Doller’s lines bring forth notes, an exacting, disjunct polyphonics, new music from out ‘silence.’ A how-to book of having hands, eyes, mind, a breathing body. Read aloud, a spirit level. It makes me want to know you.”
—Lee Ann Brown

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