Civil Noir

By Melanie Neilson

POETRY

96 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.05)

Publication Date: September 1991

ISBN 9780937804452

Rights: WOR

Roof Books (Sep 1991)

Price:	$20.00

Overview
Author Biography

Overview

"The poems collected here, in Melanie Neilson's Civil Noir, are not idees fixes but incitements, instigations. Developing out of remarkable particularities and juxtapositions, each of which may serve as a rapid and beautiful preparation for thinking about the virtue of vitality-they engender it too. But the book is not about momentum. It is about the expansion of any moment of perception into all of its parts, and it is to this purpose that the works are so carefully shaped on the page."- Lyn Hejinian

Author Biography

Melanie Neilson’s poetry collections and chapbooks include Civil Noir, Natural Facts, Prop and Guide, and Reader Souvenir. Her work has been included in the anthologies Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry, edited by David Trinidad and Out of Everywhere, Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK, edited by Maggie O'Sullivan. In 2020, she completed a book-length poem cowritten with Jessica Grim titled The Autobiography of Jean Foos. Neilson is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and has received project grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and Artists Space. She lives in Queens, New York.

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