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Book Synopsis"Very fast, very conceptual, funny and magical. Nobody like her. I loved her work then and now."--Eileen Myles Thirty-five years' worth of poems by Susie Timmons, a poet beloved by her peers, previously only available in small-run editions. Her poems are witty, smart, and quick, with a pleasantly surprising clarity and freshness. Susie Timmons was born in Chicago and has lived in New York most of her life. Timmons's first book of poetry, Locked from the Outside, was the inaugural winner of the Ted Berrigan Award, judged by Alice Notley, Robert Creeley, Anselm Hollo, and Ron Padgett.
Trade ReviewReviews of The New Old Paint: Twenty years after her award-winning collection Locked from the Outside comes this much-anticipated second title. As it turns out her long hiatus was NEVER from poetry, just some time away from the poetry scene. WHAT A RELIEF! And because she never actually left poetry these new poems contain all her skills of precision and jolting epiphanies her earlier work mesmerized us with. How rare is it to read a book of poems and get wowed at every turn of the page? RARE! I say rare! --CAConrad, The Poetry Project Newsletter Very fast, very conceptual, funny and magical. Nobody like her. I loved her work then and now. --Eileen Myles
Table of ContentsHOG WILD (1979) The Spanish Harps Asian Robe Stretched Homeward Big Time God Is Love Clothesline Ballet Bright Walls Scabby Legs You feel constructive Keep on Going Finity My Memory Obit Iron Fan Bill Sent: a Comet Odd and Even Porto Bello LOCKED FROM THE OUTSIDE (1990) Where I Left Off Correspondence Swiss Chard Vision Adorned with Sucker The Glass First Roman Picnic Sunday Is Witch Hazel For Eileen Cramps Are Like Goats Spring Classics Poem Sensitive Divider Danger Ranger Blaze, Fire, Shock, Clove Trounced Shopping Spree Inadequate Questions Song for Alice A Sense of Ruin Sparkling White Toast Hermit Girl of Venus Single File A Spin of the Sphere Forty Yous Morals in Abeyance I Like a Birdbath Hemming and Hawing, Bowing and Scraping From the Twelfth Floor of 170 Fifth Avenue The Thing Sticking in My Mind Is the Sunshine Little Life, Belgrade Locked from the Outside Avenger, Avenging Spectre Pauses, Contemplates, Grows Calm Tour the Perpendicular No Pigment Drawn to Garbage, Drawn to Flame A Ghostly Shark The Insistence of More Lure Good Energy Is Coming In the Kind of World Where We Belong Ugly Façade Small Black Beetles Fat Pen Three Rolls Grecian Formula Boulevards for Ghosts Mr. Holly Baby with a Gun A Form of Praise Bamboo Union Pay Attention THE NEW OLD PAINT (2010) On the Daily Monument I Will Tell Who Will Wash the Garbage From the Silver Pavilion Groaning Pigeons Coo Coo Vision Tiny Tears The Sullen Shepherdess Horrible Valentine Russian Folk Songs A Snowflake and a Ball of Yarn Hexagons in the Hallway Rhapsody in Orange The Turnpike Bomber Into the Stickers No Wonder The Other Side of Town Fulcrum of Disaster Poem Rebel Stronghold On the Daily Monument Estimation Committee on Darkness You Lose Ritual Aspect Stop Drop Roll Rabbits Broke the Wall Chickadees in the Snow Gone Now From the Middle of the Road Time Is the Queen of Weather Dead Road Chickadees in the Snow Sweeping Her Sidewalk Lost Verses Fun in Cincinnati Attention Sick of Pennsylvania Arson The Ruined Chapel White Bands The Freaky Ways Who Have You Ever Forgiven? Down Along the Banks of the Wabash Headache Wind Is My Friend Klown Kollidge Song from the Esperanto Canal of Consciousness The Fruit of the Banana Tree The New Old Paint
