Disposable Camera (Phoenix Poets)
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry



Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0226924113
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226924114
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Print length: 88 pages
Publication date: November 15, 2012
subtitle: Paperback – November 15, 2012
author: Visit Amazon's Janet Foxman Page search results Janet Foxman
review: Editorial Reviews Review “In Disposable Camera , Foxman offers her memories to the reader as a shared collective—as objects and experiences that evoke the breathless impact of their own recollection. Her hyper-detailed narratives—each presented in an airy, dreamlike voice, with unmistakable underlying unity—are objectively beautiful and soothing to read. Each poem also allows for the reader to retrieve her own, highly personal, collection of memories. Like digging through a time capsule you buried in your backyard, or an afternoon spent flipping through old scrapbooks, there is no telling what memories Foxman’s selection of poetry will unearth.” ― Chicago Maroon “ Disposable Camera is a perfect summation title for poetry—each poem a snapshot made permanent—a moment in time or thought. But more, these are intricate thoughts that go through the body and turn onto the page as wry, crisp, original incarnations.” -- Grace Cavalieri ― Washington Independent Review of Books “The flashes from Janet Foxman’s Disposable Camera illuminate verbal events in which the drive to make it new collides with the need to make it clear. All cameras are finally disposable; Foxman’s has yielded images that are not.” -- Stephen Yenser “Janet Foxman’s Disposable Camera is a brilliant book of great freshness and great originality. It is an exhilarating book, one that keeps the reader off balance about its ambitions and procedures.” -- Frank Bidart “The poems in Disposable Camera are about the interrelationships among the arts, often music, and memory, and twinship. Artists who use disposable cameras set themselves against an ever-increasing concern for scientific precision, working instead on the go, trusting a complex intuition based on technical skills that are nearly transparent. In the title poem, Janet Foxman “[confines] the paradise / where my sister lives” in a disposable camera, a variety of images she keeps undeveloped, an astonishing intellectual gesture at the heart of an elegiac book.” -- Kenneth Fields About the Author Janet Foxman is a freelance writer and editor, as well as a senior production editor at a publishing house.