ISA GENZKEN.....

New Interview

http://fourwaybooks.tumblr.com/post/41795837171/cynthia-cruz-interviewed-by-sara-sams-and-rachel-andoga

NICK CAVE

PAUL KLEE HAND PUPPETS

Mini-interview on The Kenyon Review's website with your's truly regarding my 3 new poems in the current issue--take a look:

http://www.kenyonreview.org/conversation/cynthia-cruz/

 Thank you to New York Times for this wonderful review of The Glimmering Room:

 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/books/poems-on-mortality-by-c-k-williams-and-cynthia-cruz.html?_r=0

Wayne Thiebaud

TIM WALKER

Winter Poetry Salon

I am starting up another round of poetry salon mid-December. The salon will meet once a week on Saturday afternoons at my home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. We will read and discuss poetry, as well as workshop one another's poems. In addition, I will assign in-class writing exercises to generate new work.

Email me if you are interested: cindyskylar@gmail.com

I am so grateful to Quinn Latimer for including The Glimmering Room in her piece, The Year in Books, in the November/December issue of Frieze Magazine. 

"If contemporary poetry is often noted for its intimacy, it is just as often derided for its lack of engagement in the less lyrical and more quotidian world. Yet two recent books of poetry take the task of implication seriously, and in quite different directions. Though Cynthia Cruz begins The Glimmering Room (Four Way Books, 2012) with a quote from the Gospel of Thomas that thunders, quietly, ‘If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you,’ the poet’s second book is mostly concerned with the things without – particularly those that damage and destroy. She marries the tropes of lyric poetry (nocturnals, gospels) to an American underclass populated by truckers, laundromats, Seconal and desert. Recalling the glittering, impoverished milieu of Denis Johnson’s early poems and the noun-awed theatrics of Lucie Brock-Broido, Cruz’s ‘traveling minstrel show / called girlhood’ is articulated by the relics delineating its emotional and material deprivation: ‘an old black motorcycle and crutches / Someone left leaning / Against the limb of an oak tree’."

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the-year-in-books/#.UJrhn1uMv1Q.facebook

My review of WG Sebald's Across the Land and the Water at the Rumpus

http://therumpus.net/2012/07/across-the-land-and-the-water-by-w-g-sebald/

The cover of my second collection, The Glimmering Room, out in October (artwork by Elizabeth Huey).

KINGDOM OF DIRT

FROM MY SECOND COLLECTION,THE GLIMMERING ROOM,FORTHCOMING FROM FOUR WAY BOOKS IN OCTOBER 2012.

Soon the ambassadors from the Netherworld
Will begin

Their jet-like descent. Death,
Disguised inside me, already,

As sleeze.
Grime and her magnificent seed. Brother Rainer

Clutching his Bible, hallucinating helicopters.
Brother Rainer, child-like and wrecked.

Infamy, and the cosmology of chronic
Raveling and unraveling. Or,

Displaced insanity. Dirty Cindy, little
Glitter of her father’s

Spit: invisible, androgynous, a fragment of
His, found at the bottom of his dream chest.

Draped in my black cape of smut glue and
Subterranean, they mistake me for

A man in drag in my nasty
Boots. Why just look: a manifestation

Of stars. Or, appoint me hustler of
Brutal Rainer and his kinky noir

Scheme: me, at thirteen, on the beach
In a candy-striped bikini.

In time or out of time,
Glamorine.

Groom of the Underworld, please
Come with me

To the discotheque at the end
Of the world. Piss-

Elegant at the halfway
House for the trashed and gone galore.

Meet me in the love-
Burned orchard

Where the beautiful doomed
Meet at last.

SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

My second collection, The Glimmering Room, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in October of 2012.

I will be teaching this summer at The Frost Conference on Poetry and Teaching from
June 24 - 28, 2012. Here is a link for that:

http://www.frostplace.org/html/conference-teaching.html

I am teaching a poetry workshop from my home beginning Saturday March 10. If you are interested in joining us email me at cindyskylar@yahoo.com

The Glimmering Room

My second collection, The Glimmering Room, is forthcoming from Four Way Books this October. When the book becomes available, I will provide links.

KAI ALTHOFF

COSIMA VON BONIN

Eddie Martinez