Cover of Invisible Bride

Invisible Bride

Tony Tost's exhilarating poetry debut defles 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.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 57 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Invisible Bride? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Invisible Bride. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems Shares poetry, contemporary poetry
  2. Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk: A Poem in Fragments Shares poetry
  3. The Second Sex Shares poetry, contemporary poetry
  4. Theories of Falling Shares poetry, contemporary poetry

“People who read Invisible Bride tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Hallelujah Blackout
  2. Spar
  3. Skid
  4. Selected Poems

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. Swoop: Poems
  2. Poems and Prose
  3. In No One's Land
  4. Revolver

“If it was the poetry that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Shake
  2. April Galleons
  3. The Grief Performance
  4. You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Ravenous Audience
  2. 20th Century Poetry and Poetics
  3. The New Faber Book of Love Poems
  4. Anthology of Modern American Poetry