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 Max Winter
The Pictures
ISBN: 978-0-9779019-2-0
Poetry.
5" x 7", 76 pages, perfectbound
February, 2007
Cover design by Max Winter
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Distinct, clear, and free of flourishes, the poems in The Pictures examine war, boredom, death, love, decay, happiness, and worship through a series of moving and still images. In one poem, from a group of “moving” pictures, three soldiers bide their time in a barren landscape, awaiting destruction; in a “still” picture, a group of stones invite us to pay closer attention to them; in another still picture, a woman stands with her mouth open, fists clenched, words unimportant. Sight is unmysterious but wondrous in this book; the poems demonstrate that to look at something or to read it is to experience it, along with its attendant sadness or joy. The "pictures" collected here are communicative and profound, quick to read but long to develop.
About Max Winter
Winner of the Fifth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest, Max Winter has poems appearing recently in Free Verse, New American Writing, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Volt, The Yale Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, GutCult, TYPO, and New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois, 2000). He has published reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and BOMB, and is a Poetry Editor of Fence.
Reviews of The Pictures
"A long-awaited debut by a promising younger poet."
--full review in Publishers Weekly
"The Pictures . . . knows how to please; its breathy moments of profundity are tempered by an evenly handled attention to the landscape of the imagination."
--full review in Bookslut, written by Olivia Cronk
"denial is combined with wonder, naïveté with all-knowingness. The seeming limitedness of this speaker, often failing to describe or know with certainty, creates a fascinating kind of realism, neither psychological nor precisely sur-. The Pictures is then both a good experiment and solid evidence that something new can still happen. It’s very much worth reading."
--full review in Octopus Magazine, written by Lucy Ives
Excerpts from The Pictures:
Readings & events for Max Winter & The Pictures
upcoming . . .
past . . .
January 31, 2008: Brooklyn, NY
AWP OFF-SITE READING:
Lily Brown, Adam Clay, Julie Doxsee, Graham Foust, Melanie Hubbard, Rauan Klassnik, Joyelle McSweeney, Cindy Savett, Zachary Schomburg, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Eleni Sikelianos, Jon Thompson, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Max Winter & CD Wright
Hosted by Black Ocean, Cannibal Books, Free Verse Editions, Kitchen Press, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky Press, & Typo
7 -11 PM @
East Coast Aliens Studios
216 Franklin Street (Greenpoint neighborhood), Brooklyn, NY
$6
November 8, 2007: Iowa City, IA
7 pm @ Prairie Lights Books
15 S. Dubuque Street
April 27, 2007: Coral Gables, FL
8PM @ Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave
305-442-4408
http://booksandbooks.com
February 21, 2007: New York, NY
Book Release Party for The Pictures
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
520 Eighth Ave., Ste. 2020
212-691-6590
February 17, 2007: New York, NY
TARPAULIN SKY AUTHORS & FRIENDS
Jenny Boully, Jordan Davis, Douglas A. Martin, & Max Winter
2 PM @ The Four-Faced Liar
165 West 4th Street (between 6th & 7th Ave)
(212) 366 0608
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