Whistle Stops
Subtitle: A Locomotive Serial Poem
Publisher: Signature Editions
Published: 2017-04-01
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781773240053
Description: "Whistle Stops: A Locomotive Serial Poem occurs over a series of train rides between Toronto and London, Ontario. Each segment of the poem, marked by a time stamp and train number, occupies one train ride. Jack Spicer's concept of serial poetry combines with Charles Olson's "projective verse" in a dynamic that resembles the momentum of a train as it carries the poetry speaker toward and away from her love interest. Informed by Philip Larkin, Thomas Hardy, and Allen Ginsberg whose poetry incorporated the train as a phallus image into the railway poem tradition, Izsak responds to critiques of a poetic movement she clearly revers with unbridled and surreal female sexuality. It is an unapologetically female addition to a movement that is and should be still in motion."--