Invisible Bride: Poems

Tony Tost's exhilarating poetry debut defies conventional description. Like a fantastic film, a feverish delirium, or a dream state, these prose poems use an experimental lexicon of imagery that goes beyond anything typically poetic. Tost's point of departure is the loss of the Other that makes the I: Agnes. And in a sort of coming-of-age soliloquy song, he meditates on a range of topics: fatherhood, childhood, identity, poetry. Together his poems express the unburdening of consciousness, a consciousness that contains the likes of Blake, Italo Calvino, Allen Grossman, and Frank Stanford, among others (including Tost himself). Surreal and surprising, Invisible Bride showcases the prose artistry of a new American talent.

Author: Tony Tost
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 04/01/2004
Pages: 57
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.22h x 5.98w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780807129647
Award: Walt Whitman Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 02/23/2004 pg. 69
Library Journal 07/01/2004 pg. 88
Publishers Weekly 02/23/2004

About the Author
Tony Tost's poems have appeared in the literary magazines Fence, No, Pleiades, Spinning Jenny, Typo, Quarter After Eight, Black Warrior Review, can we have our ball back? and others. Born in Missouri and raised in Washington, he now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.