Glitter City

Bonnie Jill Emanuel

Book cover for Glitter City
Book cover for Glitter City

Glitter City

Glitter City

Bonnie Jill Emanuel

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Description

Like glitter-tiny, precision-cut, reflective particles-the poems in Glitter City shine by reflection with flashes of light. Narrative, cinematic, and at times trance-like, the poems trace their way back in time. From Fulton Street, Brooklyn to Detroit's Woodward Avenue, over city scaffolds and rural fields, across graveyards and weedy highways, Emanuel's debut collection grieves and loves, glittering fiercely.

Critical Reviews

"In the spare, intense, searching, sometimes sidelong poems of Glitter City, Emanuel writes in burst after burst of light, her images and insights accruing into seriously dazzling designs of illumination."

-David Groff, author of Live in Suspense


"When you read these poems, you feel them in your body. You feel these beauties everywhere in the physical matter of your being. Bonnie Jill Emanuel's poems glitter."

-Matthew Lippman, author of We Are Sleeping with Our Sneakers On


"Bonnie Jill Emanuel's eye for texture and surprising insights in poem after poem mean she is always listening."

-Sean Singer, author of Today In The Taxi


"In poem after nimble poem, Glitter City is that rarity--a true and sustained pleasure to read."

-Elaine Sexton, author of Drive

Publishing Information

Publisher: Cornerstone Press
Pub date: 2024-02-05
Length: 78 pages

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