A VOLUPTUOUS DREAM DURING AN ECLIPSE Poor Claudia 2012
now available for purchase from Poor Claudia/ Octopus Books
"Elaine's poetry blends colloquial tongue-action and rigorous academic formalism better than anyone I've ever read. There may be some similarities to Clark Coolidge at times, but she is definitely her own…uh…"man". She resolves contradictions inside her work with a clarity that feels far more effortless than it must actually be. And it provides a sort of Dionysian pleasure that should be negated by its clearly Apollonian form roots. "
--Byron Coley
"Elaine's poetry blends colloquial tongue-action and rigorous academic formalism better than anyone I've ever read. There may be some similarities to Clark Coolidge at times, but she is definitely her own…uh…"man". She resolves contradictions inside her work with a clarity that feels far more effortless than it must actually be. And it provides a sort of Dionysian pleasure that should be negated by its clearly Apollonian form roots. "
--Byron Coley
CUSTOMER Ecstatic Peace Library / Glasseye Books 2010
"If we could somehow use the adjective "rapey" in a positive, upbeat manner to describe Customer,
we would. Reading this chapbook is like finding a used crack pipe on
the street in a moment where it catches the sun's golden rays like one
of God's tiny miracles."
--best american poetry
"Customer has an eye for truth when truth is the moment after you spit gum in someone's hair and realization that you did it because you want to be their friend; how an ocean "spanks up" to your chest in the otherwise still of a perfect beach. The Customer sees the irrevocably fucked truths, and she candies them out like a clarity factory"
--Ally Harris, diagram
--best american poetry
"Customer has an eye for truth when truth is the moment after you spit gum in someone's hair and realization that you did it because you want to be their friend; how an ocean "spanks up" to your chest in the otherwise still of a perfect beach. The Customer sees the irrevocably fucked truths, and she candies them out like a clarity factory"
--Ally Harris, diagram
RADIANT BOTTLE CAPS
First Edition. Limited-edition mini-chapbook of 126 copies only, this is
one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. Published in
conjunction with the No More Bush Tour of July, 2008. As new in stapled
wrappers.
