Of Mongrelitude by Julian Talamantez Brolaski


Of Mongrelitude
Title : Of Mongrelitude
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ISBN : 1940696445
ISBN-10 : 9781940696447
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 112
Publication : Published April 4, 2017
Awards : Lambda Literary Award Transgender Poetry (2017)

Of Mongrelitude is a colloquy on the mongrel body, texual and actual, sexual, specieal, and racial. Composed in a hybrid style, it makes the argument that everything can and does come into ‘englyssh’: ancient and invented languages, european and indigenous, tongues not yet named. All of this ‘made up as medicine’, as ceremony for all creatures, as literal song.

Julian T. Brolaski is the author of Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012), gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), and co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press / Belladonna Books 2009). Julian lives in Oakland, and is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country band The Western Skyline.

Of Mongrelitude Reviews

  • Carrie

    wtf cd a feminsm even mean in that context
    where everyone is blue
    except gargamel and azrael, thinly veiled evil jew and cat antagonists

  • Charlie

    This is a phenomenal collection of poetry that I know I'm underrating by giving it four stars. My only complaint is that Julian Talamantez Brolaski's style of writing in a sort of fusion of olde englishe, country-western cowpoke speak, and genderqueered conversational dialect became a bit overwhelming over the course of the collection, but that also attests to the utter magnitude of the collection. Each poem is deserving of intense critical discussion and dissection, but don't let that make you think that they aren't enjoyable, too. Of Mongrelitude is thoroughly hilarious and biting.

  • Carina Stopenski

    brolaski achieves true poetic glory with this collection. i needed to take breaks in between poems at points just because of how heavy and contemplative they were. concepts like the healing power of language, nature, and ancestral connection create a well-rounded collection wherein the poet has crafted a world that centralizes on roots. not for newcomers to poetry, but a real masterpiece of the genre to those who appreciate a complex mythology within each individual piece.

  • rosalind

    really fucking amazing collection of poetry. the fact that this hasn’t gotten the same amount of critical acclaim and attention as jos charles’s feeld is very suspect to me, because it plays with a lot of the same linguistic queerness just as skillfully. might expand on this review once i have the chance to reread it, because this needs a lot of attention. in a really great way.

  • Cynthia Arrieu-King

    Expands beyond any easy formal container and allows the sense of pleasure to take the lead--in words and in things. I love the really interior private languages of the book.

  • b

    too much, in the good way

  • Mills College Library

    811.6 B867o 2017